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The Basseri (Persian: باسری or باصری) are a Persian nomadic and pastoral tribe of the Fars province in Iran. Their migratory area is around Shiraz. They are one of the five tribes of the larger Khamseh confederation. [2]: 1 The "tent" is the basic unit of social organization among the Basseri. All tents have a recognized head that ...
Motamed was born in Tehran and spent her childhood in Iran. [4] Her family fled to Paris after the Iranian Revolution, [5] [6] then to New York when she was a teenager. [2] She attended Binghamton University in upstate New York and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, earning dual degrees in Political Science and Philosophy. [7]
The majority of Qashqai people were originally nomadic pastoralists and some remain so today. The traditional nomadic Qashqai traveled with their flocks twice yearly between the summer highland pastures north of Shiraz roughly 480 km or 300 miles south and the winter pastures on lower (and warmer) lands near the Persian Gulf , to the southwest ...
Iran International is a Persian-language news channel that broadcasts from Washington, D.C. The channel has become one of the go-to sources for many Persian speakers looking for news on anti ...
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Laleh Bakhtiar (1938–2020) Iranian and American Islamic and Sufi scholar; Najaf Qoli Khan Bakhtiari (1846–1930) Persian Prime Minister and a leader of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution; Shapour Bakhtiar (1914–1991) Prime Minister of Iran; Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932– 2001) Queen of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza ...
The National Commission of UNESCO registered the population of Iran at 21 million in 1963, of whom two million (9.5%) were nomads. [25] Although the nomadic population of Iran has dramatically decreased in the 20th century, Iran still has one of the largest nomadic populations in the world, an estimated 1.5 million in a country of about 70 million.
Marina Nemat (Persian: مارینا نِمت, Russian: Марина Немат; born 22 April 1965) is the author of two memoirs about her life growing up in Iran, serving time in Evin Prison for speaking out against the Iranian government, escaping a death sentence and finally fleeing Iran to go and live in Canada.