Nationality British-Iranian | ||
Born 20 May 1949 (age 67)
Tehran, Iran ( 1949-05-20 ) Institutions School of Oriental and African Studies Books Land of Forty Tribes, Armenian provocation: sumgait events Alma maters Ankara University, SOAS, University of London Residence London, United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom Fields Gender studies, Anthropology | ||
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Farideh Heyat (Persian: فریده هیئت, born 20 June 1949 in Tehran) is a British-Iranian anthropologist and a writer based in London. She is a retired professor of SOAS, University of London. She is the author of numerous articles on women in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan and has written two books on the subject named Azeri Women in Transition and The Land of Fourth Tribes.
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Early life
Heyat was born to Azeri parents. She spent her childhood in Tehran, growing up bilingual in Persian and Azeri languages. After graduating from school, she moved to Turkey for a year and studied physics at Ankara University. To follow her higher education, she moved to London in 1967. Her first degree was in computing and statistics. Later she obtained a Master’s degree in computer science. After a couple of years of working in industry, she trained as a teacher and began teaching computing at further education colleges in London, until 1989.