Farahnaz Ispahani (Urdu: فرح ناز اصفہانی) is a Pakistani-American writer and former politician who served as member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 2008 and 2012.

She is a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute and a member of the Anti-Defamation League Task Force on Middle East Minorities in Washington, D.C.[2][3] She is married to Husain Haqqani[4] and is the granddaughter of Abul Hassan Isphani.

[5] She is a writer and authored Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan's Religious Minorities.

[5] In 2012, Ispahani was named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy.

[5][6] She was also named as Top 100 Women Who Matter the same year by Newsweek Pakistan.