Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

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Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar OBE, (born 1944) is a Professor in Politics and Women's Studies at the University of York and Visiting Professor of Islamic Law at the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé. Of Iranian origin, she worked as a journalist before and after her initial studies at York, where she returned after receiving her PhD from Cambridge University.

Afshar serves on several bodies, notably the British Council and the United Nations Association, of which she is Honorary President of International Services. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours list of June 2005.[1] On October 18, 2007 it was announced that she would be created a baroness and join the House of Lords as a cross-bench (non-party political) peer. She was formally introduced into the House of Lords on December 11, 2007, as Baroness Afshar of Heslington in the County of North Yorkshire.

[edit] Styles

  • Dr Haleh Afshar
  • Professor Haleh Afshar
  • The Rt. Hon. Professor The Baroness Afshar OBE (2007-)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Queen's Birthday Honours List (HTML). Retrieved on 2008-03-10.

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