Nadia Maftouni

Nadia Maftouni was born in 1966, in Tehran, Iran. She is an associate professor of Islamic Philosophy and Theology at University of Tehran as well as a senior research scholar in law at Yale Law School. As a student, she studied philosophy at University of Tehran. Before training in philosophy, she had an incomplete education in applied physics at Sharif University of Technology. As a teacher, she teaches philosophy and logic. She even spent several years long ago as an instructor of physics and mathematics at high school. Along with researching on philosophy of art, she is a painter and poet. She has had exhibitions and workshops in Paris, Beijing, Vienna, Beirut, Algiers, Berlin, to name but a few.