Haleh Afshar

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Professor Haleh Afshar OBE is a lecturer in Politics and Women's Studies at the University of York and Visiting Professor of Islamic Law at the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé. Of Iranian origin, she worked as a journalist before and after her initial studies at York, where she was to return after receiving her PhD from Cambridge University.

Prof. Afshar servess on several bodies, notably the British Council and the United Nations Association, of which she is Honorary President of International Services.

She is married to Professor Maurice Dodson.

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