Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri
Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri (Persian: قمرالملوک وزیرى [ɢæmærolmoluːk væziːriː]; (1905 – 5 August 1959), born Qamar Khanum Seyed Hosayn Khan[citation needed] (Persian: قمر خانم سید حسین خان), commonly known as “Qamar” (Persian: قمر [ɢæmær]), was a celebrated Iranian singer, who was also the first woman of her time to sing in public in Iran without wearing a veil.[1] She is known as “the Queen of Persian music”…. more
Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri (born Qamar Khanum Seyed Hosayn Khan in 1905 in Tehran) was the first Iranian female singer to record her songs and to appear on public stage without using hijab. She was the first and is one of the the most famous female singers singing Iranian traditional vocals. She is known as the Queen of Persian music….. more
Global and Iranian history are both closely intertwined with the lives and destinies of prominent figures. Every one of them has laid a brick on history’s wall, sometimes paying the price with their lives, men and women alike. Women have been especially influential in the past 200 years, writing much of contemporary Iranian history…. more
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The Silencing of Qamar al-Moluk Vaziri
Extravagance and Myth-Making in Iranian Historiography 1
ByLeyla Rouhi…. more