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One of the Empress Farah’s main initiatives was founding Pahlavi University, which was meant to improve the education of Iranian women, and was the first American style university in Iran; before then, Iranian universities had always been modeled on the French style. The Empress wrote in 1978 that her duties were:

From the late Sixties onward, Empress Farah Pahlavi of Iran amassed one of the world’s greatest collections of modern art for her country.

Karim Pasha was a friend of Farah Pahlavi who met her in France. He was born in Tabriz in 1305 and continued his postgraduate studies in the United States and continued to Ph.D. in Law and Political Science.

Farah Pahlavi (née Diba, 14 October 1938) is the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the former Shahbanu (Empress) of Iran.Her Imperial Majesty Farah Pahlavi, Shahbanou of Iran was born in Tehran on October 14, 1938, the only child of Mr. Sohrab Diba and Farideh Diba Ghotbi .Following the death of her father in 1947, Farah Pahlavi was educated at the ...

Shah (Šâh or Şah)  is a title given to the emperors/kings and lords of Iran (historically also known as Persia). It was also adopted by the kings of Shirvan (a historical Iranian region in Transcaucasia) namely the Shirvanshahs, the rulers and offspring of the Ottoman Empire (termed there as Şeh), Mughal emperors of the Indian Subcontinent, the Bengal Sultanate, as well ...