Ziba mir hosseini biography of alberta
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Ziba mir hosseini biography of alberta
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Iranian legal anthropologist
Ziba Mir-Hosseini (Persian: زیبا میرحسینی; born 3 April 1952) is an Iranian-born legal anthropologist, specialising in Islamic law, gender and development.[1][2] She received her PhD in anthropology from Cambridge University[3] and is the author of several books on Islam, gender, and the family.[4][5][6]
She has also directed two documentary films, Runaway and Divorce Iranian Style.[7]
Biography
Born to Iranian parents, Mir-Hosseini is fluent in English, French, and Persian, and is familiar with Arabic and Kurdish.
She received her bachelor's degree in Sociology from Tehran University in 1974, and completed her PhD in Social anthropology in 1980 from the University of Cambridge. Mir-Hosseini's doctoral thesis was written about an ethnographic fieldwork in 1977 in Kalardasht, a tourist district in Iran, about how tourism and a changing economy both impac