Zahra Rahnaward
Zahra Rahnaward ( Persian زهرا رهنورد, actually Zohre Kasemi , * 1945 ) is an Iranian sculptor , political scientist and wife of the Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi .
Life
Zahra Rahnaward studied art at the University of Tehran , where she met her future husband, Mir Hossein Mousavi. She also received her PhD in political science in 1976 and then went to the USA , but returned to Iran before the Iranian Revolution in 1979. In 1998, at the suggestion of Mostafa Moins , Rahnaward was appointed rector of Alzahra University , the only women's university in Iran, but was dismissed by President Ahmadinejad after he took office. She taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran University . Rahnaward advised the former President Mohammed Chatami during his tenure, she also wrote 15 books and is the mother of three daughters.
Political activity
Rahnaward publicly supports her husband in his candidacy for the presidency and is held in high regard by the academic female elite in Iran. On May 30, 2009, Mir Hossein Mousavi was originally supposed to speak in front of 15,000 people in Tehran's Azadi Arena. After her husband was stopped in Isfahan , Rahnaward announced that she would give the speech. She addressed issues such as equal rights for women, freedom of thought and speech, as well as the oppression of society and especially of the youth by the moral guards. In this context, she also criticized the policies of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Zahra Rahnaward's brother, Shahpur Kasemi, was arrested after the Iranian presidential election in 2009 . The 62-year-old telecommunications expert is in custody, said Rahnaward, to put pressure on her husband.
Web links
- Women on the front lines , article in the taz , June 10, 2009
- Iranian women cheer reformers , article in Tages-Anzeiger , May 24, 2009
- Alzahra University website
Individual evidence
- ^ The woman Ahmadinejad must tremble before Spiegel Online, June 9, 2009
- ^ Guardian.co.uk , accessed June 12, 2009
- ↑ news.yahoo.com , accessed June 12, 2009
- ↑ Tagblatt , June 2, 2009.
- ↑ Mousavi's brother-in-law arrested for over a month focus.de on July 23, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rahnaward, Zahra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kasemi, Zohre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian artist, publicist and politician's wife |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |