Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem through the Islamic
Revolution (1992)
wikipedia.org, 2012-05-25
Information trouvée : Sattāreh Farmānfarmā'iān (1921 – 23 May 2012)(Persian: ستاره فرمانفرمائیان). Farman-Farmaian
was the first Iranian to attend and graduate from the University of Southern California,
completing her B.A. in sociology (February 1946) and her M. S. W. (June 1948). In
1948, she married a University of Southern California film student from India, Arun
Chaudhuri. . In 1954, she left this position and accepted a two-year renewable position
with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
as a social welfare consultant to the government of Iraq, attempting to settle nomadic
Arabic tribes in the desert. In 1958, Farman-Farmaian returned to Tehran to open a
private two-year school to train social workers, the Tehran School of Social Work,
and served as its director.