[3] Amir-Arjomand was born in 1938 and studied at Razi High School in Tehran, where she attended classes with Farah Diba, who later became Queen of Iran.
[1] She completed her MLIS degree at Rutgers University, under the instruction of Mary Virginia Gaver.
[1] Amir-Arjomand initially proposed the development of a children's library to Queen Farah, who provided the land for its construction.
[1] By the late 1960s, Amir-Arjomand became the leader of what was then called the Organization for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults.
[5] Under her leadership, the library initiative built and maintained about 300 libraries and cultural centers in Iran, created mobile units to distribute books, and established a publishing house to create and translate children's books into Persian.