{"id":8107,"date":"2014-11-18T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_people&p=8107"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:14:40","slug":"fariba-sahebi","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/fariba-sahebi\/","title":{"rendered":"Narges (Fariba) Sahebi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MA candidate, Narges (Fariba) Sahebi, emigrated from Iran to Canada with her husband prior to starting her Master\u2019s Program in Women\u2019s and Gender Studies. She took an immediate liking to the Ottawa area despite how different it was from Tehran: \u201cAlthough Tehran is a beautiful city, it is very big and crowded. I adore nature, and so the first thing I liked about Gatineau was that you could bike for five minutes, or walk for ten minutes and find beautiful scenery in Gatineau Park. It is so nice!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fariba earned her Bachelor\u2019s degree in Statistics, but her true passion is in Women\u2019s Studies. In particular, she is interested in Muslim women\u2019s sartorial discourse in western societies. She explains, \u201cI like to help women have better lives, it helps me to have a better life, too. This was my main goal in entering Women\u2019s and Gender Studies.\u201d Her passion was unmistakable and, upon taking an Introduction to Women\u2019s and Gender studies course at the University of Ottawa, her professor realized her potential: \u201cShe actually recommended me to Carleton. She said she would \u2018put money on me\u2019 and that was really memorable!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy motivation to study Women\u2019s and Gender Studies comes from being a woman and having experienced many problems as a woman,\u201d Fariba explains, and \u201cI realized that I needed to know more about this field, and to educate myself in order to have a more peaceful life. I have faced discrimination and have often heard comments being made about women, but I never knew how to respond in a proper way. I could not make people understand my point of view and accept what I was saying. My education is preparing me to live my life fully as a woman, and to fight for change\u2014even if only a small change\u2014for my possible future daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fariba\u2019s research paper will explore debates over Muslim women\u2019s attire in Western societies: \u201cMuslim women are treated as others<\/em> in Western societies. Veiled women are often seen as a symbol of terror or of Islam fundamentalism, which is incorrect in my opinion. There is a lot of pressure put on these women, and additionally they must deal with stereotypes that present them as being oppressed and passive individuals in need of being rescued. Although Islam, as an institutional religion, can be understood as oppressive, it is important not to single it out\u2014but rather to take into consideration the patriarchal culture in which this religion is practiced.\u201d Fariba hopes to further explore how a simplistic focus would deny Muslim women diversity as well as agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked what she likes best about Carleton, Fariba says that \u201cthere are lots of resources available to help students and TAs to have an excellent, well-rounded experience at Carleton. The people in the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies department are very understanding and willing to help students to work towards their chosen path in life. Also, there were eight of us who started in the MA program last year, and they are the best cohort ever!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8135,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Narges (Fariba)","cu_people_last_name":"Sahebi","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[15],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-8107","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-graduate-students"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"MA Alumni, 2015","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18631,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8107\/revisions\/18631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}