Fereydoun Hoveyda (Persian: فریدون هویدا Fereydūn Hoveyda, born 21 September 1924 in Damascus, Syria - died 3 November 2006 in Clifton, Virginia, USA) was an influential Iranian diplomat, writer and thinker. Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Damascus ( دمشق,, also commonly known as الشام ash-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. Syria ( سوريّة or) officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic ar الجمهورية العربية السورية Events 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim Caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Clifton is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. He was the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations from 1971 until 1979. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Hoveyda was nephew of Abdol Hossein Sardari, who is known for saving many jews in Paris under World War 2. Abdol Hossein Sardari, (c 1895 - 1981 was an Iranian statesman and diplomat who saved the lives of many Jews during The Holocaust. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
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Biography
He was born in Damascus, where his father was the Consul-General of Iran, and was raised in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Lebanon (ˈlɛbənɒn Arabic: ar لبنان Lubnān) officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic (ar الجمهورية اللبنانية The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA ( المملكة العربية السعودية, al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Suʻūdiyya) or Suudi He completed a Ph. D. in International Law and Economics at the Sorbonne, Paris, France in 1948. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Fereydoon Hoveyda, who died after a long fight against cancer, is survived by his wife Gisela and their two daughters Mandana and Roxana.
Career
A participant in the final drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he worked in UNESCO from 1951 to 1966. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly ( 10 December 1948 at Palais United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on November 16 In the late 1960s, he returned to Iran and worked in the Iranian Foreign Ministry as the Under-Secretary for International and Economic Affairs. From 1971 to 1979 he represented Iran at the United Nations.
Apart from politics, he was active in the field of cinema and was a member of the editorial board of the celebrated film magazine Cahiers du Cinema. Cahiers du cinéma ( Notebooks on Cinema;) is an influential French Film Magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin,
His brother, Amir Abbas Hoveyda, a former prime minister of Iran under the Shah, was executed after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (امیرعباس هویدا Amīr `Abbās Hoveyda) February 18, 1920 &ndash April 7, 1979) was an Shah is an Iranian term for a Monarch (leader that has been adopted in many other languages The Iranian Revolution' (mostly known as the Islamic Revolution, Persian: انقلاب اسلامی Enghelābe Eslāmi was the Revolution that transformed Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Having been forced out of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Fereydoun Hoveyda became a senior fellow and member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), as well as a member of think tank institution Benador Associates. The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP is a Non-partisan Foreign policy Think tank based in New York City. Benador Associates is a Public relations firm and speaker's bureau that promotes expert writers and speakers focusing primarily on U
He was also a well-known author of 18 novels and non-fiction books in French, English, and German. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.
Major works
- The Fall of the Shah
- Que Veulent les Arabes? (What do Arabs Want?)
- Petite histoire du roman policier, forew. by Jean Cocteau
- The Sword of Islam
- The Broken Crescent
- The Threat of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism
- The Hidden Meaning of Mass Communications
- The Shah and the Ayatollah: Islamic Revolution and Iranian Mythology
- Dead End Islam
References
External links
- Washington Post: Fereydoun Hoveyda; Iranian Delegate to United Nations During Shah's Rule
- Fereydoun Hoveyda's Official Website: [1], [2]. Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 &ndash 11 October 1963 was a French Poet, Novelist, Dramatist, Designer, Boxing
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