Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar OBE FAcSS (Persian: هاله افشار; 21 May 1944 – 12 May 2022) was a British professor and a life peer in the House of Lords. She was a prominent 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 development in Iran, where she grew up, and journalism in both countries.


The Baroness Afshar

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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
13 December 2007 – 12 May 2022
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born(1944-05-21)21 May 1944
Tehran, Iran
Died12 May 2022(2022-05-12) (aged 77)
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)
Maurice Dodson (m. 1974)
Children2
Alma materUniversity of York
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Personal
ReligionShi'a Islam

Afshar died on 12 May 2022 at the age of 77.[1]

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