Education
Darabi studied at California State University Northridge, University of Southern California and Pepperdine University, and California Coast University.
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Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident
(On February 21, 1994, a gesticulating and screaming woman...)
On February 21, 1994, a gesticulating and screaming woman entered a crowded public square in Tehran, removed her government-mandated veil and full coat, poured gasoline on her body and lit herself on fire. The crowd watched in horror as this woman, who had shouted, "Death to tyranny! Long live freedom!", committed a slow, painful suicide in a last, desperate attempt to make the world aware of the slavelike conditions of women living in Iran. A shockwave was felt in the American medical and feminist communities as well as in the Iranian political regime when the media reported that the self-appointed martyr was well-respected Dr. Homa Darabi, a lifelong advocate of civil rights and the first Iranian ever to be accepted into the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Darabi had risen from a student activist to a civil rights leader and moved on to a brilliant career in medicine as a premier psychiatrist, teaching at the University of Tehran, and establishing the first clinic in Iran to treat children's mental disorders. In this moving memoir, Darabi's sister, Parvin, and her son, Romin P. Thomson, vividly recreate Homa's childhood in Iran in the politically tempestuous '50s and '60s-a time of limited resources, tensions, and religiously sanctioned child abuse. They remember Homa's early yearnings for justice; the battle for democracy during the Shah's regime; and her marriage, which began as a loving partnership and ended under Khomeini in disaster. They unflinchingly recount the stonings, beatings, rapes, and executions of women, all performed in the name of God-outrageous abuses that Dr. Homa Darabi tried to expose to the world through her own final act of desperation. If you care about basic human rights, this scathing indictment of contemporary oppression in Iran will enrage you.
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Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident by Parvin Darabi (1999-02-01)
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Parvin Darabi
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Career
Parvin worked as an electronic systems engineer, program manager, company president, and engineering consultant until 1994. From 1985 to 1990 she owned and operated her own Company PT Enterprises, in Mountain View, California where they developed the most sensitive Radar Detector presently on the German Naval Vessels active in North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Her elder sister, Homa Darabi, committed suicide in 1994 by burning herself in a public square in Iran to protest against the Iranian government. Parvin along with Lydia Sparksworthy co-authored a book "" which chronicles the lives of 30 influential women in Truckee, California.
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Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident
(On February 21, 1994, a gesticulating and screaming woman...)
- Rage Against the Veil. Inscribed By the Author. the Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident
- Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident by Parvin Darabi (1999-02-01)
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Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident
