Farideh Heyat

Last updated


Farideh Heyat
Born (1949-06-20) 20 June 1949 (age 76)
NationalityBritish-Iranian
Alma mater Ankara University
School of Oriental and African Studies
Scientific career
Fields Women's studies
Anthropology
Institutions School of Oriental and African Studies
Thesis Career, Family and Femininity: Sovietisation among Muslim Azeri Women  (1999)
Website http://www.faridehheyat.co.uk/about

Farideh Heyat (Persian : فریده هیئت, born 20 June 1949 in Tehran) is a British-Iranian anthropologist and a writer based in London. She is a retired lecturer of SOAS, University of London and American University of Central Asia in Bishkek. [1] Heyat is the author of numerous articles on women in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan. She is also the author of the following books: Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and post-Soviet Azerbaijan and The Land of Forty Tribes. [2]

Contents

Early life

Heyat was born to Azeri parents. She spent her childhood in Tehran, growing up bilingual in Persian and Azeri languages. [3]

Education

After graduating from school, she moved to Turkey for a year and studied physics at Ankara University. To follow her higher education, she moved to London in 1967. Her first degree was in computing and statistics. Following that, she obtained a master's degree in computer science. She then switched her subject and began her studies in social anthropology at SOAS University of London, where she obtained an MA in anthropology, followed by Ph.D. in the subject. [3]

Career

After a couple of years of working in the computer industry, she trained as a teacher and began teaching computing at further education colleges in London, until 1989. She started her career in teaching anthropology and development studies in SOAS after obtaining her Ph.D. in 1999. In 2002 she started teaching these subjects at American University of Central Asia. [3]

Research

From 1992 until 1997, she conducted research on the historical situation of women in Azerbaijan and the post-soviet changes for them. During 2002 to 2003 she traveled and did research across Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan on women, culture, and society of the region.

Bibliography

Books

Book chapters

Journal articles

References

  1. "Farideh Heyat - Biweekly". Biweekly.ada.edu.az. 15 August 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  2. "Farideh Heyat". Hertfordshirepress.com. 14 May 2015. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Just a moment..." faridehheyat.co.uk. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  4. Goluboff, Sascha L. (October 2003). "Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan. By Farideh Heyat. Central Asia Research Forum. New York: Routledge Curzon, 2002. xii, 224 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Tables. $90.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 62 (3): 604–605. doi:10.2307/3185837. ISSN   0037-6779.
  5. Ataman, Muhittin (2004). "Review of Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan". Insight Turkey. 6 (2): 156–156. ISSN   1302-177X.
  6. Adam, Volker (2010). "Review of Azeri Women in Transition. Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 160 (2): 489–492. doi:10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.160.2.0489. ISSN   0341-0137.
  7. Grant, Bruce (2003). "Review of Heyat, Farideh, Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan". H-Gender-MidEast. H-Gender-MidEast, H-Review. Retrieved 18 August 2025.