People

By Tim Cornwell Afshin Naghouni’s studio is tucked away underneath a railway arch in West London. Commuter trains drown out the conversation every few minutes, as they rattle and thunder overhead.   The Grenfell Tower, an...

By Azadeh Karimi Hassan Tofigh, the renowned Iranian cartoonist and the managing editor of the satirical weekly magazine Tofigh, died of a heart attack on May 31 at Tehran’s Asia Hospital. He was 95. “Mr. Tofigh...

By Firouzeh Nordstrom Erfan Nouraee is a 20-year-old Iranian-Canadian second-year student in electronic engineering at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering in Toronto who recently won a major international award for a sensor he invented. Nouraee...

If the name Sabrina Setareh Kraus doesn't mean anything to you yet, rest assured: it soon will – especiallly if you live in New York. Born in New York State in 1966 to Jewish-Iranian parents who had left the country only two years earlier, Sabrina completed her studies in her home state. She got her Bachelor’s Degree from Colgate University in 1988, and her Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1991. A year later, she started her career as an associate at the Kucker Kraus & Bruh LLP law firm. Six years later, she was a partner. Two years after that, she was out the door to take up another senior position: as a partner at Borah Goldstein Altschuler Schwartz & Nahins, P.C.

By Ahmad Rafat The Iranian journalist and women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad had a half-hour meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier this month. Alinejad’s visit to the State Department reportedly took place...

Seema Ghiassi Kennedy has earned herself a spot in the history books: she is the British Parliament’s first member of Iranian descent, elected in May 2015 as the MP for South Ribble (in Lancashire,...

By Tara Biglari Sam Hamadani is a Wake County District Court Judge who was re-elected to her post in the November midterm elections. She received the highest number of votes in a Wake County Bar...

November 03, 2016 Iraj Mesbahzadeh passed away on November 3, 2016 in MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Iraj was born in Tehran, Iran in 1947. He was the eldest son of Dr. Mostafa Mesbahzadeh,...

By Fred Parvaneh Last month, the residents of West Hollywood voted in the local California elections. On the ballot was the name of a small business owner, feminist, activist and attorney of Iranian descent: Sepi...

By Fred Parvaneh British-Iranian Asal Shirazi is a quiet, unassuming mother of five children who has studied law, medicine, and aromatherapy. She is also a licensed skin practitioner. Asal suffers from a life-threatening autoimmune disorder, yet...