Homa Sarshar

Homa Sarshar
Picture of Homa Sarshar
Native name
هما سرشار
Born1946 (age 78–79)
Shiraz, Iran
LanguageEnglish, Persian
NationalityIranian, American
Alma materUniversity of Tehran (BA)
University of Southern California (MA)
SpouseNejat Sarshar
Children2
Website
homasarshar.com

Homa Sarshar (Persian: هما سرشار; also Romanized as Homā Sarshār; born 1946) is an Iranian-American author, activist, media personality, and award-winning journalist. She was a columnist for Zan-e-Ruz magazine and the Kayhan daily newspaper between 1964 and 1978.

Early life

Sarshar was born in Shiraz in 1946 to a Jewish family and raised in Tehran. She moved to the United States and settled in Los Angeles one year before the Iranian Revolution in 1978. She studied French literature at Tehran University, earning a bachelor's degree in the subject. She later obtained a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. In 1993, Sarshar joined Human Rights Watch as an adviser.

Awards and honors

Sarshar received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2013. In Iran, the Iranian Women's Organization of Tehran presented Sarshar with a Medal for Special Achievement in Women's Rights.[1][2]

Bibliography

  • Book of Now Ruz, Vol. 1 (1988)
  • Book of Now Ruz, Vol. 2 (1989)
  • Iranian Women's Image in Iranian Culture (ed.) (1993)
  • Iranian Women, Researches and Arts (ed.) (1993)
  • In the Back Alleys of Exile, 2 volumes (1993)
  • Women and Family in Iran and Abroad (ed.) (1994)
  • Women and Politics In Contemporary Iran (ed.) (1995)
  • Women, Sexuality and Islam (ed.) (1996)
  • Shaban Jafari, Naab Publishers (2002)
  • Terua: The History of Contemporary Iranian Jews Vol I (1996),ISBN 1883819121
  • The History of Contemporary Iranian Jews Vol II, Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History; Chap-i (1996),ISBN 0966129105
  • The History of Contemporary Iranian Jews Vol III, Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History; Unabridged edition (1999),ISBN 0966129113
  • The History of Contemporary Iranian Jews Vol IV, Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History; Unabridged edition (2000)

References

  1. ^ "Homa Sarshar". Retrieved 2014-07-08.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Zohreh (2010). Exiled Memories: Stories of Iranian Diaspora. Temple University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-4399-0641-5.