Sattareh Farmanfarma'ian, Sattareh Farman-Farmaian, was an Iranian author, social worker, and was of Qajar nobility.
10 Facts About Sattareh Farmanfarmaian
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Sattareh Farmanfarmaian was one of the daughters of Persian nobleman and Qajar Prince, Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, through mother Massoumeh.
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Sattareh Farmanfarmaian was a pioneer within the field of social work in Iran, and she was the first Iranian student to attend the University of Southern California.
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Sattareh Farmanfarmaian Farman-Farmaian, a daughter of Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, Prince of the Qajar dynasty, and Massoumeh Khanum Tafreshi, was born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1921, the fifteenth of thirty-six children.
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Sattareh Farmanfarmaian had eight siblings, four brothers and four sisters.
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Sattareh Farmanfarmaian had been able to keep her daughter Mitra with her for the first year in Bagdad, but, realizing that her work would take her to the desert, decided to send her to Dartington Hall in Devonshire, England, for her education.
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Sattareh Farmanfarmaian continued as director of the Tehran School of Social Work until 1979 when political upheaval forced her to flee the country.
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Sattareh Farmanfarmaian entered the United States as a refugee in 1979.
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Sattareh Farmanfarmaian died on May 21,2012, in Los Angeles, California.
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Sattareh Farmanfarmaian lectured widely worldwide and in 1997 established a website to publicize and facilitate discussion of her autobiography.