1. Farzaneh Milani is a poet, award-winning translator, and a recipient of the Carnegie Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
10 Facts About Farzaneh Milani
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Farzaneh Milani was born in Tehran, Iran in about 1947, she was the only daughter in a family of five children.
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Farzaneh Milani had attended Catholic co-educational French schools before relocating to the United States.
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Farzaneh Milani is the author of over 100 articles, op-eds, prologues, epilogues, forewords and afterwords in both Persian and English.
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Farzaneh Milani has guest edited two issues of Nimeye-Digar, a Persian-language feminist journal, IranNameh, and Iranian Studies: A Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies.
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Farzaneh Milani's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms.
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Farzaneh Milani has presented more than 150 lectures in the United States and around the world.
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From 1994 to 1996, Farzaneh Milani served as president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America.
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Farzaneh Milani published Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement in 2011.
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In 2012 Farzaneh Milani was voted "Woman of the Year" by the Iranian Women Studies Foundation.