Making NASA’s Mars Mission a Success: Iranian-Americans Kamak Ebadi and Aram Hamidi
By Nazanine Nouri
Kamak Ebadi and Aram Hamidi are an Iranian-American couple working at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). They were instrumental in NASA’s successful recent mission to Mars.
Dr. Ebadi is a postdoctoral fellow...
Google’s ‘Security Princess’ Parisa Tabriz Battles for Web Safety, Gender Balance
By Nazanine Nouri
Parisa Tabriz is one of the most sought-after executives in the cybersecurity world. Her business card identifies her as Google’s “Security Princess”-- a title she came up with herself. She is the...
Dropbox’s Billionaire Co-Founder Arash Ferdowsi, Ex-MIT Student, Leaves Company
By Nazanine Nouri
Arash Ferdowsi is a pioneering Iranian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Dropbox --the cloud-based file-syncing service -- in 2007 with Drew Houston, a fellow student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Thirteen years later, Dropbox...
Exclusive Interview with Prince Reza Pahlavi: “I Expressed My Political and Ideological Principles”
By Nazenin Ansari
In an audio file published on social media in the closing days of the Iranian year (ending March 20), Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-1980), spoke...
Actor Nazanin Nour Collaborates with Hip Hop Artist Afta Hill in YouTube Film
By Fred Parvaneh
Nazanin Nour -- the Iranian-American actor, writer and voice-over artist -- has released a short film on YouTube this week titled “I Don’t See the Point,” directed by Kia Mozaffari, with a...
An Outstanding Iranian Statesman: Remembering Mr. Abdolreza Ansari
By Amir Taheri
In the 1960s, as Iran emerged from decades of instability triggered by the Allied invasion and occupation in World War II, the Azerbaijan crisis, the aftershocks of oil nationalization and a looming...
Remembering Iranian Poet Forough Farrokhzad on Anniversary of Her Death
By Firouzeh Ramezanzadeh
This week is the anniversary of the death of Forough Farrokhzad Araghi, one of Iran’s most celebrated modern poets. She died, aged 32, on Feb. 13, 1967.
Farrokhzad was a poet with an expansive...
Shah’s Brother-in-Law Mehrdad Pahlbod Is Remembered in Memoir
By Cyrus Kadivar
Mehrdad Pahlbod -- who died three years ago this month -- was for 51 years the husband of Princess Shams, the sister of Mohammad Reza Shah. The couple had three children. Between...
Video Interview With Yasmine Pahlavi, Wife of Prince Reza Pahlavi
By Azadeh Karimi and Ali Eshtiagh
Yasmine Pahlavi is the wife of the former Iranian Crown Prince, Reza Pahlavi. She is a children’s rights lawyer, and has played an active role in highlighting the plight...
Half-Iranian Eurovision Contestant Barbara Pravi Draws Comparisons With Edith Piaf
By Nazanine Nouri
Barbara Pravi is a half-Serbian, half-Iranian singer-songwriter who finished second in the Eurovision Song Contest last month after representing France with her song “Voila.” It was France’s highest score in 30 years,...
