Sattareh Farmanfarmaian
Sattāreh Farmānfarmā’iān (Persian: ستاره فرمانفرمائیان; December 23, 1921 – May 21, 2012), also Sattareh Farman-Farmaian, was an Iranian author, social worker, and was of Qajar nobility.[1] She was one of the daughters of Persian nobleman and Qajar Prince, Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, through mother Massoumeh. She was a pioneer within the field of social work in Iran, and she was the first Iranian student to attend the University of Southern California (USC)… more
Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the founder of social work as a profession in Iran, was born in 1921 at the end of the Qajar dynasty… more
Sattareh Farman-Farmaian was a pioneer of family planning and a founder of a social movement to help women, children, prisoners and other disadvantaged groups in Iran. She became known as the “mother of social work” in Iran, but she narrowly escaped execution as punishment for her work when Islamic revolutionaries overthrew the monarchy in 1979…. more
Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s in a Persian harem compound… more
Sattareh Farman Farmaian was a human rights activist who grew up in the harem of a Qajjar prince, studied social work in America, and became regarded as the ‘mother of social work’ in Iran…. more
Sattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a Persian prince who used her family’s power to found a trailblazing social welfare movement on behalf of women, children, prisoners and other disadvantaged Iranians in the years before the Islamic revolution, died May 21 at her home in Los Angeles…. more