Ladan Boroumand | Ladan Boroumand is an Iranian historian and human rights advocate. A former visiting fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington, D.C., she has a Masters degree in political sociology and a PhD in the history of France. Boroumand authored La Guerre des Principes, an extensive work that highlights the relationship throughout the French Revolution between human rights and the sovereignty of the nation. She has also written and contributed several articles on the Islamic revolution of Iran, and the nature of Islamic terrorism. She is currently the research director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, a nongovernmental organization that promotes human rights awareness through education and distribution of information with the goal of establishing a stable democracy in Iran. Boroumand, along with her sister, founded Omid, a website that acts as a tracker for the human rights abuses of the Islamic Republic and a memorial for its victims.
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