Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

The Baroness Afshar
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
13 December 2007  12 May 2022
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Haleh Afshar

(1944-05-21)21 May 1944
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Died12 May 2022(2022-05-12) (aged 77)
Heslington, England
NationalityBritish
Spouse
Maurice Dodson
(m. 1974)
Alma mater

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.