Iranian Oscar winner Anousheh
Ansari boycotted the Oscars because of the "unjust circumstances" of
Donald Trump's travel ban.
Anousheh Ansari is an
Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her
previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of
Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor
of the Ansari X Prize. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th
birthday, she became the first Iranian in space.
Ansari was the fourth
overall self-funded space traveller, and the first self-funded woman to fly to
the International Space Station. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, co-written with
Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.
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