Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr | |
| Majority | 988,564 (33.72%)[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 December 1968[1] Tehran, Iran[1] |
| Political party | Islamic Iran Participation Front |
| Spouse |
Mohammad Tahavori
(m. 2001; div. 2015) |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence(s) | Needham, United States |
| Alma mater |
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| Occupation | Scholar |
| Profession | Counselor[2] |
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo (also spelled Haghighatjou and Haqiqatju;
Iranian Parliament from 2000 to 2004.[2] She left Iran in 2005[4] and currently resides in the United States, where she serves as the CEO and co-founder of the 501(c)(3) organization Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy (NID).[5]
Early life and education
Haghighatjoo was born in 1968 in southern
Tarbiat Modarres University,[3] gaining a degree in psychology and holding a Ph.D. in family counseling. She was a student activist with the Office for Strengthening Unity.[2]
Political career
Haghighatjoo worked for
Mosharekat party as a student leader.[2] In 2000, she successfully ran for a seat in the Iranian Parliament and became the youngest female deputy.[3]
An advocate of
Ayatollah Khomeini and insulting Ali Khamenei in 2001 for what she said in a speech in Qazvin, eventually convicted of the latter charge and sentenced to ten months suspended imprisonment.[3]
On 23 February 2004, she resigned from the parliament on the grounds that she is no longer able to keep her
Judiciary] in recent years".[3]
Professional career
Haghighatjoo was a math teacher and then a counselor in a girls' high school, before being employed as a lecturer at
University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the University of Connecticut and has had fellowship positions at Kennedy School of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies.[5]
Views
She self-identifies as
separation of mosque and state.’’[4]
Personal life
Haghighatjoo married a parliamentary correspondent, when she was 31 and serving her second year as a lawmaker. In November 2003, she gave birth to a girl, Sara Tahavori.[3][2]
References
- ^ a b c "Parliament members" (in Persian). Iranian Majlis. Archived from the original on 24 October 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- ^ S2CID 147214983.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ziba Mir-Hosseini (Winter 2004). "Fatemeh Haqiqatjoo and the Sixth Majles: A Woman in Her Own Right". Middle East Report (233). Middle East Research and Information Project.
- ^ a b c James F. Smith (13 July 2009), "In exile, an Iranian 'lion' keeps fighting", The Boston Globe, retrieved 11 July 2017
- ^ ISBN 9780253020796.