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Pardis Mahdavi is an American scholar and former president of University of La Verne....
Author. Journalist. Entrepreneur.Pardis Mahdavi, Ph.D.
Coach. Keynote speaker.
Pardis Mahdavi is an author, journalist, entrepreneur, coach, and keynote speaker. She has published seven non-fiction books and two edited volumes. She earned a BA from Occidental College, and two masters and a PhD from Columbia University.
She is the author of the highly acclaimed Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror (Hachette Books 2023), Riding (Duke University Press, 2024), Hyphen (Bloomsbury 2021), Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives (Stanford University Press, 2016), From Trafficking to Terror (Routledge, 2016), Gridlock: Labor, Migration and Human Trafficking in Dubai (Stanford University Press, 2011) and Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2008).
“…Mahdavi is an expert on human rights and education policy…”
Her work has appeared in, among others, Time, Ms.
Magazine, Huf