Vera Beaudin Saeedpour

Vera Marion Beaudin Saeedpour (pronounced sah-EED-por; née Fine; March 27, 1930 – May 30, 2010) was an American researcher and scholar who specialized in the study of Kurdish people.

She founded the Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America, the first library and museum in the United States dedicated to the subject.

Saeedpour was born Vera Marion Fine in Barre, Vermont on March 27, 1930, to Jewish immigrants from Russia.

Following her husband's death, in 1986, Saeedpour opened the Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America with a library in her Prospect Heights, Brooklyn brownstone.

[6] Before the Gulf War, she organized a speaking tour for Kurdish politician Jalal Talabani, later to become President of Iraq.