Fereydoun Hoveyda

Fereydoun Hoveyda

Fereydoun Hoveyda (PerB| فریدون هویدا "Fereydūn Hoveyda", 21 September 1924 in Damascus, Syria – 3 November 2006 in Clifton, Virginia, USA) was an influential Iranian diplomat, writer and thinker. He was the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations from 1971 until 1979. Hoveyda was nephew of Abdol Hossein Sardari, who is known for saving many jews in Paris under World War 2.

Biography

He was born in Damascus, where his father was the Consul-General of Iran, and was raised in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. He completed a Ph.D. in International Law and Economics at the Sorbonne, Paris, France in 1948.

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. 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.

His brother, Amir Abbas Hoveyda, a former prime minister of Iran under the Shah, was executed after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. 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.

He was also a well-known author of 18 novels and non-fiction books in French, English, and German.

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

* [http://www.benadorassociates.com/hoveyda.php His profile on Benador Associates website]

External links

* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110701319.html Washington Post: Fereydoun Hoveyda; Iranian Delegate to United Nations During Shah's Rule]
* Fereydoun Hoveyda's Official Website: [http://www.hoveyda.org/obit.html] , [http://www.hoveyda.org/] .



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