Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

The Baroness Afshar
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the House of Lords
Life peerage
11 December 2007 – 12 May 2022
Personal details
BornHaleh Afshar
(1944-05-21)21 May 1944
Died12 May 2022(2022-05-12) (aged 77)
Heslington, England
Spouse
Maurice Dodson
(m. 1974)
Children2
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.