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The Neda Agha-Soltan Graduate Scholarship is a scholarship for post-graduate philosophy students at The Queen's College, Oxford, with preference given to students of Iranian citizenship or heritage. The college received offers from two anonymous donors to establish a scholarship, followed by many individual donations from members of the public ...
Neda Soltani (Persian: ندا سلطانی; born 1977, in Isfahan [1]) is an Iranian exile.During the 2009 Iranian election protests, she was teaching English at Azad University [2] when her Facebook profile photo was mistakenly published in many articles about the death of the similarly named Neda Agha-Soltan, who was shot and killed during the protests.
The Neda Agha-Soltan Graduate Scholarship is a scholarship for post-graduate philosophy students at The Queen's College, Oxford, with preference given to students of Iranian citizenship or heritage. It was established in 2009 following the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, an Iranian philosophy student, in the street protests that followed the ...
Grave of Neda Agha-Soltan. The Mourning Mothers (also known as the Mothers of Laleh Park; Persian: مادران پارک لاله) are a group of Iranian women whose spouses or children were killed by government agents in the protests following the disputed Iranian presidential election of 2009. [1]
Soltani (soltānī, Persian: سلطانی; Arabic: سلطاني; also spelt as Sultani; derived from sultan) is an Arabic and Persian name meaning ‘strength-ruler’ and may refer to: Neda Agha-Soltan, often incorrectly called "Neda Soltani", see Death of Neda Agha-Soltan
Neda Agha-Soltan (1983–2009), shot during the 2009 Iranian election protests; her name quickly became a rallying cry for the opposition; Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi (1858/9 – 1921), author and pioneer of the Persian women's movement in modern Iran; Shiva Nazar-Ahari, human-rights activist; Elham Modaressi (born 1990), artist and activist
On 14 June 2010 [4] the documentary film For Neda, made by Thomas with the help of Saeed Kamali Dehghan, on the death of Iranian demonstrator Neda Agha-Soltan, was released. Kamali Dehghan secretly filmed Neda's family and obtained footage of her life and death for the HBO documentary. [5]
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