One in 4 of Iran’s most educated citizens leave their country when given the opportunity. They leave in search of greater social and religious freedoms and for better employment opportunities. “People are selling their computers, rugs, phones and jewelry to collect money” to leave the country, a travel agent in Tehran told the Wall Street …
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 6 February, 2020 | Topics: Art & Culture, Culture, Education, Fundamental Freedoms, Human Rights, Near East & North Africa, Science & Tech, U.S. & Iran
One of the founding principles of the United States is freedom of expression . As technology has allowed new ways for people to express themselves, protecting that freedom has meant protecting not just what’s in books and newspapers, on radio and television but also what is on the internet. Because of the First Amendment to the Constitution — …
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 20 April, 2018 | Topics: Culture, Education, Policy
The Secretary of States’ International Women of Courage Award honors women who have demonstrated exceptional courage, strength, and leadership in acting to improve others’ lives. It is an extraordinary opportunity to bring international attention and support to women who have put their lives and/or personal safety at risk in order to improve their communities. Through …
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 6 April, 2017 | Topics: Art & Culture, Education, Human Rights, Policy
Ali Khademhosseini is a Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a faculty at the Harvard-MIT’s Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and as well as an Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. He is also a Junior Principal Investigator at Japan’s World Premier International …
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By Virtual Embassy Iran 40 | 25 October, 2016 | Topics: Culture, Education, Featured Event | Tags: Prominent Iranian-Americans
Pardis Sabeti is an Iranian-American computational biologist, medical geneticist and evolutionary geneticist, who developed a bioinformatic statistical method which identifies sections of the genome that have been subject to natural selection and an algorithm which explains the effects of genetics on the evolution of disease. Sabeti is an Associate Professor in the Center for Systems …
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 1 January, 2015 | Topics: Education, Featured Event, Policy | Tags: Prominent Iranian-Americans