Ashraf Pahlavi
Ashraf Pahlavi , in German texts also Aschraf Pahlavi and Aschraf Pahlawi ( Persian اشرف پهلوی, DMG Ašraf-e Pahlavī ; * October 26, 1919 in Tehran ; † January 7, 2016 in Monte Carlo ), was an Iranian politician and diplomat .
Life
Her parents were Reza Shah Pahlavi and Nimtādsch Ayromlu . Her twin brother was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and her older sister was Schams Pahlavi . Together with her sister she “took off the veil” in 1934, which was in contrast to the practice in Iran at the time. She married Ali Ghavam in 1937, from whom she divorced in 1942; In 1944 she married Ahmad Shafiq, from whom she divorced in 1960. In 1960 she married Mehdi Bushehri. Pahlavi had two sons and a daughter. Her son Shahriar Shafiq (born March 15, 1945 in Rabat ) was murdered on December 7, 1979 in Paris.
In 1944 she was appointed honorary president of the Red Lion with the Red Sun Society of Iran . In 1965 she became chair of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women . As Iranian delegates it was at the 1967 United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Economic and Social Council worked (United Nations Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC). In 1970 she became Iran's delegate to the UN Human Rights Commission. In 1975 she was a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Women's Annual Conference. From 1967 to 1979 she was President of the Women's Organization of Iran. She was chairman of the Imperial Foundation for Social Services . She was a member of the International Consultative Liaison Committee for Literacy . After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, she went into exile in France. Pahlavi also worked as a writer and translator.
Publications (selection)
- Faces in a Mirror: Memoirs from Exile (1980)
- Time for Truth (1995)
- Jamais Résignée (1981)
Prizes and awards (selection)
- Honorary Fellow of Wadham College , Oxford
- Netherlands: Knighthood of Honor Grand Cross of the House Order of Orange
- Soviet Union: Order of the Red Banner of Labor
Literature (selection)
- Hussein Fardust: The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty: Memoirs of Former General Hussein Fardust . Translated by Ali Akbar Dareini. Motilal Banarsidass, 1998, ISBN 81-208-1642-0 .
- Mark Gasiorowski: The 1953 coup d'etat in Iran . International Journal of Middle East Studies 19 (3): 261-286, 1987, JSTOR 163655
- Fereydoun Hoveyda: The Fall of the Shah . Wyndham Books, New York, 1979
- Nikki R. Keddie: Roots of Revolution: an Interpretive History . Yale University Press, New Haven (Connecticut), 1981, ISBN 978-0-300-02611-5
- Stephen Kinzer : All the Shah's Men: an American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror . John Wiley & Sons, New York City, 2003, ISBN 978-0-471-67878-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Persian princess died at the age of 96 . ap article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 8, 2016; accessed on January 15, 2016.
- ^ Ashraf Pahlavi, Shah of Iran's twin, dead at 96 . ap article at CBC / Radio-Canada , January 8, 2016, accessed January 15, 2016.
- ↑ Secret police blaymed for slaying . Telegraph Herald , Dubuque, December 9, 1979, via Google News , accessed January 15, 2016.
- ^ Max Harrelson: Human Rights Chairman Pursues Racial Equality . The Free Lance Star , March 9, 1970, via Google News , accessed January 15, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pahlavi, Ashraf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | اشرف پهلوی (Persian); Moluk, Aŝraf ol |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran , Iran |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2016 |
| Place of death | Monte Carlo , France |