What is Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = The Baroness Afshar | honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|FAcSS}} | image = File:Official portrait of Baroness Afshar crop 2.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | office2 = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br/>[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]] | term_start2 = 13 December 2007 | term_end2 = 12 May 2022 <br/>[[Life peer|Life Peerage]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|5|21|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Tehran]], [[Pahlavi Iran|Iran]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|5|12|1944|5|21|df=y}} | nationality = British | party = | spouse = {{marriage|Maurice Dodson|1974}} | relations = | children = 2 | alma_mater = [[University of York]]<br>[[Murray Edwards College, Cambridge]] | profession = | signature = | website = | module = {{Infobox religious biography | embed = yes | religion = [[Shi'a Islam]] }} }} '''Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[FAcSS]] ({{lang-fa|هاله افشار}}; 21 May 1944 &ndash; 12 May 2022) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[professor]] and a [[life peer]] in the [[House of Lords]]. She was a prominent [[Muslim feminism|Muslim feminist]], and characterises herself as a [[Socialist]] and a [[Shi'a Muslim]]. Her background is in [[equal opportunities]] in Britain, and before that, [[land reform]] and [[land development|development]] in [[Iran]], where she grew up, and [[journalism]] in both countries. Afshar died on 12 May 2022 at the age of 77.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/persian/tv-and-radio-61433303 درگذشت بارونس هاله افشار؛ نگاهی به کارنامۀ او]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Afshar, Haleh}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:Academics of the University of York]] [[Category:British femi