Besides the above, Aryanfar is one of the boardmembers of the Iran Comité, a member of the D66 (Dutch Democratic Party) and is active in its PIVD (Platform International security & defense).
Farinaz Aryanfar was born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran. She learned to play the piano when she was nine, and reading and writing when she was barely five. After passing six years of school in her home-country, she fled the country with her mother and little sister and immigrated to Holland. In the first four years, which they were to stay in the refugee camps, she wrote some short articles and poetries which are to be concerned as her first writings. In 1998 (14 years old), she received an honorary music diploma. A year after that, she had become the first prize winner of the Kangoeroewedstrijd (National math’s competition) in her high school. When she was 16 she started her first official human rights activity with the VTU (women against deportation) where she was the youngest participant.
A year later she made a documentary about Iranian refugees in Holland which she produced from her own budget for The Iranian National Television (NITV). She has also been a freelance journalist for NITV. In 2004 she got elected as Miss Iran Benelux and worked temporary as a model.
Her poetry and columns in Farsi have been published in Iranian web sites like, "Pouyeshgaran", "Avaye Azad", "Omid 57" etc. Her English ones in sites like, Iranian.com, Cobra, Univers, Brabant Cultureel, Tilburg Magazine, etc.
She has worked with many Iranian Human Rights' organizations, e.g. IHRAG (Iranian Human Rights Active Groups), 8mars women organization and Karzar women, but also many Iranian student organizations, and has been the second PR of Amnesty International Group 618 (Students for Amnesty).
Her most successful campaigns have been the campaign for Kianoosh Sanjari's Freedom and the campaign for Nahid Kalhor’s release.
In 2008 she received the title "Campus Poet of Tilburg University 2008", for which she has been invited to many literature cafes and has had many interviews.
Farinaz Aryanfar was born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran. She learned to play the piano when she was nine, and reading and writing when she was barely five. After passing six years of school in her home-country, she fled the country with her mother and little sister and immigrated to Holland. In the first four years, which they were to stay in the refugee camps, she wrote some short articles and poetries which are to be concerned as her first writings. In 1998 (14 years old), she received an honorary music diploma. A year after that, she had become the first prize winner of the Kangoeroewedstrijd (National math’s competition) in her high school. When she was 16 she started her first official human rights activity with the VTU (women against deportation) where she was the youngest participant.
A year later she made a documentary about Iranian refugees in Holland which she produced from her own budget for The Iranian National Television (NITV). She has also been a freelance journalist for NITV. In 2004 she got elected as Miss Iran Benelux and worked temporary as a model.
Her poetry and columns in Farsi have been published in Iranian web sites like, "Pouyeshgaran", "Avaye Azad", "Omid 57" etc. Her English ones in sites like, Iranian.com, Cobra, Univers, Brabant Cultureel, Tilburg Magazine, etc.
She has worked with many Iranian Human Rights' organizations, e.g. IHRAG (Iranian Human Rights Active Groups), 8mars women organization and Karzar women, but also many Iranian student organizations, and has been the second PR of Amnesty International Group 618 (Students for Amnesty).
Her most successful campaigns have been the campaign for Kianoosh Sanjari's Freedom and the campaign for Nahid Kalhor’s release.
In 2008 she received the title "Campus Poet of Tilburg University 2008", for which she has been invited to many literature cafes and has had many interviews.
Most of her interviews, either on literature or the Iran issue, will be published in this blog or you can google them.
