What is Talat Basari?
[[File:Talat basari.jpg|right|200px]] '''Tal'at Bassari''' ({{lang-fa|طلعت بصاري}}, 1923 – 18 September 2020), was an Iranian [[Bahai]] poet, [[feminist]], academic, and writer. She was born in [[Babol]], [[Iran]]. In 1967, she had also published a biography on [[Zandokht Shirazi]], a pioneer in the feminist movement in Iran.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paidar |first1=Parvin |title=Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran |date=1997 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521595728 |page=371 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2CP61Ke2cTQC&dq=talat+basari&pg=PA371 |access-date=4 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref> She also worked on the editorial board of the New Jersey-based magazine, Persian Heritage.<ref>{{cite news |title=Persian Heritage Magazine |url=http://persian-heritage.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/PH-Magazine/PH78/PH78-E.pdf |access-date=4 November 2019 |archive-date=21 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921010544/http://persian-heritage.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/PH-Magazine/PH78/PH78-E.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> She identified as [[Bahai]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Eshraghieh and Mahmoud Rabbani Collection |url=https://bahai-library.com/bosch_rabbani_collection |website=bahai-library.com |access-date=4 November 2019}}</ref> Bassari also assisted in books on the life of the influential Persian Bahai poet [[Táhirih]]. Basari died on 18 September 2020 in [[Los Angeles]], aged 97.<ref name=Iranwire>[https://iranwire.com/fa/jinac/41516 به یاد طلعت بصاری، استاد دانشگاه و پژوهشگر بهایی]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Basari, Talat}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Iranian writers]] [[Category:Iranian poets]] [[Category:Iranian academics]] {{bio-stub}}