Farzaneh Aghaeipour
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Farzaneh Aghaeipour is an Iran
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 playwright, author, and activist. She is a board member at the politically active Iranian Writers Association, which fights censorship and advocates freedom of expression. Her major works include historical plays and novels on recent Iranian political history.

In a 2006 tour of North America
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, Aghaeipour spoke at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
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, (a teacher's college which is part of the University of Toronto
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), on September 9, 2006 and later that month at Université du Québec à Montréal
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