The Baroness Afshar | |
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![]() 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 21 May 1944 Tehran, Imperial State of Iran |
Died | 12 May 2022 Heslington, England | (aged 77)
Nationality | British |
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.