Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
The Baroness Afshar | |
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Official portrait, 2019 | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 11 December 2007 – 12 May 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Haleh Afshar 21 May 1944 |
| Died | 12 May 2022 (aged 77) Heslington, England |
| Spouse |
Maurice Dodson (m. 1974) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | |
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Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, OBE, FAcSS (Persian: هاله افشار; 21 May 1944 – 12 May 2022) was a British life peer in the House of Lords. She had a life-long interest in women's rights and Islamic law. She was a professor at the University of York and she wrote over a dozen scholarly books.