Explain Quote by Maryam Mirzakhani

Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

— Shirin Ebadi

I established relationships with so many of those Iran students that went on for years.And they were so different from American students. They seemed…

— David C. Driskell

I studied international relations in England, and I wanted to pursue higher education and be able to analyze what was going on in Iran…

— Shohreh Aghdashloo

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

— Marjane Satrapi

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters…

— Alan Dershowitz

In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor…

— Shirin Ebadi

The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the…

— Margaret Geller

Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in…

— Nicholas Kristof

Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up…

— Shirin Ebadi

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus,…

— David Ignatius

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a…

— Athanasios Orphanides

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were…

— Zaha Hadid