Category: Merikhi’s Women

Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X. Delacroix In a letter to his brother, he wrote: “if I haven’t fought for my country at least I’ll...

Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became...

Sohrāb comes across a fort between the border of Turan and Iran, where Gordāfarid’s father defends the fort. Gordāfarid was also a very skilled fighter and archer. After Sohrāb captures the commander of the fort, Gordāfarid puts on battle clothes...

Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari (1874–1937) was Iranian lur Bakhtiari revolutionary and activist of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. As a military commander, she played a distinguished role when Bakhtiari forces successfully captured Tehran in 1909 as part of the revolutionary campaign to...

Forugh Farrokhzad was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, feminist author. Farrokhzad died at the age of 32 due to a car accident. She published Reborn in 1964. Her poetry...

Maryam Mirzakhani (12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. In 2005, as a result of...

Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri, commonly known as “Qamar” was a celebrated Iranian singer, who was also the first woman of her time to sing in public in Iran without wearing a Hijab. She is known as “the Queen of Persian music”. Singing...

Farânak is the first freedom-loving and liberal woman in Shahnameh (Shahnameh is one of the world’s longest epic poems by Ferdowsi. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past Iran), whose extraordinary qualities that Ferdowsi attributes...

“Rapunzel” is a German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm and first published in 1812 as part of Children’s and Household Tales.Its best known line is, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair”. During the Qajar period in Iran, even...

The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel....