Farideh Heyat (Persian: فریده هیئت, born 20 June 1949 in Tehran) is a British-Iranian anthropologist and a writer based in London.
She spent her childhood in Tehran, growing up bilingual in Persian and Azeri languages.
[3] After graduating from school, she moved to Turkey for a year and studied physics at Ankara University.
She started her career in teaching anthropology and development studies in SOAS after obtaining her Ph.D. in 1999.
During 2002 to 2003 she traveled and did research across Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan on women, culture, and society of the region.