Nezhat_Nafisi

Nezhat Nafisi

Nezhat Nafisi

Iranian politician (1920–2003)

Nezhat Nafisi (Persian: نزهت نفیسی, 1920 – 2 January 2003) was an Iranian politician. In 1963 she was one of the first group of women elected to the National Consultative Assembly.

Quick Facts Member of the National Consultative Assembly, Constituency ...

Biography

Born in 1920,[1] Nafisi grew up wanting to be a medical doctor, but was not allowed to complete her education.[2] After her first husband died,[2] she married Ahmad Nafisi, who served as mayor of Tehran from 1961 to 1963. Their daughter Azar became a writer.[3]

Women were granted the right to vote in 1963, and in the parliamentary elections that year, Nafisi was one of six women elected to the National Consultative Assembly.[4][5]

She died on 2 January 2003.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Azar Nafisi (2003) Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
  2. [2]
    Reading Mom and Dad in Tehran The New York Times, 2 January 2009
  3. [3]
    A Study Guide for Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" Gale, 2016
  4. [4]
    Lois Beck & Guity Nashat (2004) Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic, p.141
  5. [5]
    Hamideh Sedghi (2007). Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 159. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511510380. ISBN 9780511510380.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Nezhat_Nafisi, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.