January 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1
Promoting Women’s Rights in the Muslim World
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Mahnaz Afkhami
Mahnaz Afkhami is executive director of the Sisterhood Is Global Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, an international group devoted to the protection of women’s rights around the world. She was a minister of women’s affairs in prerevolutionary Iran and is the author of Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World (1995).