Parvin Darabi

Parvin Darabi (Persian: پروین دارابی; born 1941, Tehran) is an Iranian-born American activist, writer and defender of women’s rights.

Her elder sister, Homa Darabi, committed suicide in 1994 by burning herself in Tajrish square in Tehran to protest against the Iranian government.

[4] She also established the Homa Darabi foundation, her intention was to secular state, to democracy to gender equality.

[8] Darabi has said that there are many laws in Shi'a Islam that would turn off any educated person completely, one of them being temporary marriage, which she terms as "religiously sanctioned prostitution."

[10][11] The book was published in 2002 by the Homa Darabi Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to human rights issues mostly related to women.