Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

The Baroness Afshar
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
13 December 2007 – 12 May 2022
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Haleh Afshar

(1944-05-21)21 May 1944
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Died12 May 2022(2022-05-12) (aged 77)
Heslington, England
NationalityBritish
Spouse
Maurice Dodson
(m. 1974)
Alma mater

Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, OBE, FAcSS (Persian: هاله افشار; ‎21 May 1944 – 12 May 2022)[1] was a British life peer in the House of Lords. She had a life-long interest in women's rights and Islamic law. She was a professor at the University of York and she wrote over a dozen scholarly books.

  1. ^ Veitch, Janet (19 May 2022). "Lady Afshar obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 June 2022.