- Sattareh Farman Farmaian
Sattareh Farman Farmaian is one of the daughters of Persian nobleman
Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma of theQajar dynasty.She was born in
Shiraz in approximately 1921, but moved toTehran to the Farman Farmaian family compound shortly afterwards. Her father,Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma , required that she undertake a modern European education in addition to her traditional Persian education. Consequently, she studied French,Painting ,Classical Persian Music ,Poetry , andMaths amongst many other subjects. She attended the Tarbiat elementary school until she was 12 after which she continued her education at the American School for Girls, a Presbyterian missionary school. In 1944 she became the first Iranian to attend theUniversity of Southern California where she studiedsociology . In 1946 Sattareh continued her education by entering USC's professional school for Social Work where she immersed herself deeply in her studies, graduating with a Master of Social Work degree in 1948.* In August 1958 Sattareh opened the first Iranian school for training social workers with government backing.
The Tehran School for Social Work was a totally independent school whose strenuous curriculum was set by Sattareh herself. It ceased operations several years after the 1979 revolution.* Through the efforts of the social workers school she also set up community welfare centers across Iran.
* She helped found the Family Planning Association of Iran, and set up a clinic in the Tehran maternity hospital to teach new mothers how to best manage their families futures.
Sattareh Farman Farmaian is the author of Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution.
ee also
* Persia
*History of Persia
*History of Iran
*Qajar Dynasty of Iran
*Iran Teymourtash ources
*cite book|title=Daughter of Persia|first=Sattareh|last=Farman Farmaian|coauthors=Munker, Dona|publisher= Crown Publishers, Inc|location=
New York City |year=1992|id=ISBN 0-552-13928-9External links
* [http://www.qajarpages.org/ The Qajar (Kadjar) Pages]
* [http://www.islamicarchitecture.org/dynasties/qajars.html Qajars Dynasty] Turkoman dynasty of the Shahs of Persia
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