Behzad Behzadi
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Behzad Behzadi was an Iran
ian lawyer, Azerbaijan
i language author, and owner and manager-in-charge of the Azari quarterly magazine.
Behzadi's works include Persian Azerbaijani Dictionary, Azerbaijani Persian Dictionary, and articles on Azerbaijani orthography using the Arabic script.
Behzad Behzadi was an attorney
by education, he spent most of the last few decades of his life devoted to the cultural advancement of his people. The majority of his many books have been dedicated to organizing and documenting the Azerbaijani language
and culture. His dictionaries are filed with the United States Library of Congress
and his literary work has established him as a cultural icon for the people of Azerbaijan and Iran. His latest endeavor met with great reception with the publication of a periodical magazine with cultural and educational material.
Financial success was never his main goal, yet he achieved it skillfully. He grew his company, the National Iranian Warehousing Company from a staff of 30 to 10,000 in 9 years. He traveled the world and spoke at numerous organizations many of which he had helped organize. He was the founder of multiple companies and oversaw huge expansions of his companies' facilities.
Behzad was a fighter for human rights
and a philanthropist in deed. He endured 2 years as a political prisoner in his early life.
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Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian lawyer, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
i language author, and owner and manager-in-charge of the Azari quarterly magazine.
Behzadi's works include Persian Azerbaijani Dictionary, Azerbaijani Persian Dictionary, and articles on Azerbaijani orthography using the Arabic script.
Behzad Behzadi was an attorney
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
by education, he spent most of the last few decades of his life devoted to the cultural advancement of his people. The majority of his many books have been dedicated to organizing and documenting the Azerbaijani language
Azerbaijani language
Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...
and culture. His dictionaries are filed with the United States Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
and his literary work has established him as a cultural icon for the people of Azerbaijan and Iran. His latest endeavor met with great reception with the publication of a periodical magazine with cultural and educational material.
Financial success was never his main goal, yet he achieved it skillfully. He grew his company, the National Iranian Warehousing Company from a staff of 30 to 10,000 in 9 years. He traveled the world and spoke at numerous organizations many of which he had helped organize. He was the founder of multiple companies and oversaw huge expansions of his companies' facilities.
Behzad was a fighter for human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
and a philanthropist in deed. He endured 2 years as a political prisoner in his early life.
Death
Behzadi died in Tabriz, Iran in 2008.lOrange County,united States