# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zahra-rahnavard
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:12.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zahra-rahnavard"
name: "Zahra Rahnavard"
slug: "zahra-rahnavard"
description: "Zahra Rahnavard is an Iranian academic, artist and politician. Rahnavard is a university professor, artist, and intellectual who was under house arrest from February 2011 to May 2018. In 2009, Foreign Policy magazine named her one of the world's most distinguished thinkers. She is the wife of former Iran Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi. In part of her work, she has underlined the need for men to respect the laws of the hijab in the same way as women, as well as a general activist for women's rights in the Middle East."
tagline: "Iranian academic and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zahra_Rahnavard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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profileType:
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  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1945-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           18.38612
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump