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Janet Afary is an Iranian author, feminist activist and researcher in history, Religious Studies and women studies. She now lives in the United States of America.

Her research field includes politics of contemporary Iran and gender and sexuality in modern Middle East. She is known for her writings and research on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.

Afary is a professor of Religious Studies and Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. She received her M.A. from University of Tehran and her Ph.D. in Modern Middle East History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was the recipient of the Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan.

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