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Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
British life peer (1944–2022)
Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, OBE, FAcSS (Persian: هاله افشار; 21 May 1944 – 12 May 2022)[1] was a British life peer in the House of Lords.
She had a life-long interest in women's rights and Islamic law.
Haleh afshar biography
She was a professor at the University of York and she wrote over a dozen scholarly books.
Life and career
Haleh Afshar was the eldest of four children born to Hassan Afshar and Pouran Khabir. She was born on 21 May 1944 in Tehran.[2] Her father was at one point a government minister and he was a professor of law at Tehran University and her mother successfully campaigned for women to gain the vote.[3] She went first to the Jeanne d’Arc school in Tehran until at 14 she was boarding in Solihull to attend school there.
She joined the new University of York after completing her A-levels in Brighton and she gained her first degree in 1967 in Social Sciences. Five years lat