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Article: Fahime Akbar
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 16, 2009
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Fahime Akbar, 91, who wrote and lectured about the culture and
folklore of her native Iran, died Sept. 3 of congestive heart
failure at her home in Chevy Chase.
Mrs. Akbar, who came to the Washington area around the time of
the Iranian revolution in the late 1970s, was well known in her
homeland for promoting local culture, particularly of her native
province of Gilan. While living in Iran, she published a cookbook
and a book of poetry about Gilan.
She traveled to Thailand, China, Singapore and Indonesia to study
folklore and lectured widely throughout Iran and in the Washington
area.
Fahime Yamin Esfandiary was born in Tehran and graduated from a
French-language school there. She studied ...