Angella Nazarian
| Angella Nazarian | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Angella Maddahi Tehran, Iran |
| Residence | Beverly Hills, California |
| Education | Ettefagh |
| Occupation | Academic, author, philanthropist |
| Spouse(s) | David Nazarian |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives |
Younes Nazarian (father-in-law) Sam Nazarian (brother-in-law) |
| Website | AngellaNazarian.com |
Angella Nazarian is an Iranian-born American former academic, non-fiction author, conference organizer and philanthropist.
Angella Nazarian was born as Angella Maddahi in Tehran, Iran in the late 1960s. Her father was a bazaar trader from Rasht. His family name was originally Yacobzadeh; he changed it to Maddahi to obviate antisemitic discrimination. Moreover, they did not tell other people they were Jewish. She has a sister and three brothers. She was educated at Ettefagh, a Jewish school in Tehran.
During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, she immigrated to the United States with her family, settling in Beverly Hills, California, where her uncle and brothers lived. The next year, her parents went back to Iran to sell their assets, but they were not allowed to leave because of the ongoing Iran–Iraq War. By 1985, they managed to escape to Pakistan, and were sent back to the United States by the Jewish Federations of North America. Both Angella and her parents received political asylum in the United States. They are not allowed to visit Iran again. An interview of her early life as a refugee conducted by JIMENA was published in The Jerusalem Post.
Nazarian was a Professor of Psychology at Mount St. Mary's University, California State University, Long Beach and the Los Angeles Valley College for eleven years.
She is a non-fiction author and has written three books. Her first book, Life as a Visitor, chronicled her departure from Iran and life as a refugee in California. Her second book, Pioneers of the Possible: Celebrating Visionary Women of the World, was a collection of essays about female role models. Her third book,Visionary Women, highlights the lives of twenty female luminaries of modern times.
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