Farideh Heyat

Farideh Heyat (, born 20 June 1949 in Tehran) is a British-Iranian anthropologist and a writer based in London, England. She is a retired lecturer of SOAS, University of London and American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Heyat is the author of numerous articles on women in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan. She is also the author of the following books: Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and post-Soviet Azerbaijan and The Land of Forty Tribes.

Early life Heyat was born to Azeri parents. She spent her childhood in Tehran, growing up bilingual in Persian and Azeri languages.

Education After graduating from school, she moved to Turkey for a year and studied physics at Ankara University. To follow her higher education, she moved to London in 1967. Her first degree was in computing and statistics. Following that, she obtained a master's degree in computer science. She then switched her subject and began her studies in social anthropology at SOAS University of London, where she obtained an MA in anthropology, followed by Ph.D. in the subject. Land of Forty Tribes, Hertfordshire Press, 2015

Book chapters Post-Soviet Islam in Azerbaijan, Cultural Archetypes and Political Change in the Caucasus, Nino Tsetsishvili (ed.), Nova Science Publishers, 2010 Women and the Culture of Entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan, Markets and Moralities: ethnographies of post-socialism, R. Mandell & C. Humphrey (eds.), London: Berg, 2002 Azeri Professional Women's Life Strategies in the Soviet Context, Gender and Identity Construction: Women of Central Asia The Caucasus and Turkey, F.Acar and A. Ayata (eds.), E.J. Brill, Boston, USA, 2000 The Azaris, Some Minorities in the Middle East, R. Tapper (ed.), Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London, 1992

Journal articles New Veiling in Azerbaijan: gender and globalizing Islam, European Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 15, no.4, October 2008 Globalisation and Changing Gender Norms in Azerbaijan, International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 8, no.3, September 2006 Re-Islamisation in Kyrgyzstan: gender, new poverty, and the moral dimension, Central Asian Survey, vol.23, no.3-4, Dec. 2004