Wall Street Journal
The 50 Women to Watch 2008
Sheila Bair Tops the List By Michael R. Crittenden
Ms. Ghods is widely credited with spearheading the expansion of nongovernmental organizations in Iran beyond traditional religious-based charities to include broader-based civil-service organizations. And she has become a role model for young Iranian women who want to take an active role in society.
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New York Times
Seeking Signs of Literary Life in Iran
Published: May 27, 2007
Occasionally, a work of homegrown fiction manages to be both absorbing and benign by the standards of Islamic decency. Saideh Ghods’s best-selling novel “Kimia Khatoun,” which revisits the life of Shams-e Tabrizi, the Sufi mystic who inspired the poetry of Rumi, from the perspective of Tabrizi’s discontented wife, is a case in point.
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PARSA Community Foundation
Saideh Ghods: One Woman’s Volunteerism Providing Hope to Thousands
In the northeastern hills of Tehran’s Darband district lies an 18,000 square meter hospital and rehabilitation center dedicated to treating children diagnosed with cancer. The center was created by Saideh Ghods, whose two-year old daughter, Kiana, was diagnosed with cancer in 1986.
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OCPC Magazine
Mahak Children’s Cancer Center – A Pillar of Hope and Strength
Nima M. Gharavi, M.D., Ph.D.
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Shahrzad
Iranian Among WSJ’s The 50 Women To Watch
November 16, 2008
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Saideh Ghods
By Syma Sayyah
Saideh Ghods is a lady and a mother who has done something almost revolutionary in Iran. Not only did she endure the pain and sorrow when her daughter fell ill and was diagnosed to have a malignant lump in her kidney, she quietly did all that was necessary, taking her child to the proper doctors and administering the necessary medication and standing by her child to bear the pain with her. Not only did she make sure that no stone was left unturned in order to make sure that all that could be done was done for her child.
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IDB Award for Saideh Ghods, the Mahak chief
By Syma Sayyah
Last month Mrs. Saideh Ghods, the founder of Mahak, was awarded the prize for achievement by women in the Islamic world by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in Jeddah in recognition of her work and efforts to improve children’s healthcare in the past 17 years. Ms Ghods won this award jointly with Mrs. Runa Khan of Bangladesh.
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