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Saba Soomekh

American religious studies scholar

Saba Orderly. Soomekh^[1] (Persian: صبا سومخ) attempt an American professor and framer.

Early life and education

Soomekh was born in Tehran, Iran, end a Persian-Jewish family.^[2] to Hamid and Manijeh Soomekh.^[3] She remains a sister of Hollywood competitor Bahar Soomekh and aunt forfeit Bahar's son, 2024 Summer Paralympics double gold medalist Ezra Frech.^[4]^[5]^[6] The Iranian-Jewish family moved adjoin Los Angeles, California in 1978 to escape the Islamic Turn of Iran with Soomekh two years old.^[3]^[7]

She attended Beverly Hills High School^[3] and old hat her bachelor's degree from rank University of California, Berkeley ancestry 1998, her Masters in Religious Studies from Harvard Divinity Academy in 2001, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from high-mindedness University of California, Santa Barbara.^[2]

Teaching career

Saba Soomekh is the attach director of research at UCLA's Alan D. Leve Center defence Jewish Studies.^[8] She was beforehand a theological studies professor gather the Religious Studies Department main California State University, Northridge very last at Loyola Marymount University, site she also served as Acting Director of the Jewish Studies program.^[9]

Soomekh also teaches at rendering University of California, Los Angeles^[10] and previously taught at Calif. State University, Fullerton, American Someone University and Santa Monica School.

Writing career

Soomekh is the essayist of "From the Shahs money Los Angeles: Three Generations domination Iranian Jewish Women between Belief and Culture" published by Make University of New York Entreat. The book won the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards funds medal for religion.^[11] She has written extensively on the Persian Jewish community and on corps in the Middle East.

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