Mehrangiz Kar [SEP] country of citizenship
Mehrangiz Kar
Mehrangiz Kar () (b. 1944, Ahvaz, Iran) is a prominent Iranian lawyer and human rights activist. She is also author of the book "Crossing the Red Line", and a celebrated activist of women's rights in Iran.
Kar was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and in the 2005/06 academic year was based at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
She has also been recognized as a Scholar at Risk through an international network
Nobel Laureate)
- Marjan Jahangiri, professor of cardiac surgery at St George's, University of London, first female professor of cardiac surgery in the United Kingdom and Europe
- Mehrangiz Kar, lawyer, fellow at Harvard University
- Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Professor of History at University of Pennsylvania; novelist
- Fatemeh Keshavarz, Chair of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literature Department, Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
- Elaheh Koulaei, Professor of Political sciences, Faculty of