Shahnaz Azad

Shahnaz Rushdieh, also known as Shahnaz Azad (1901–1961), was a journalist and a pioneer of the women's movement in Iran. She was also the editor of the Women's Letter.

Early life
Shahnaz was born in a cultural and middle class family in Tabriz city. Her father Haji-Mirza Hassan Roshdieh was a well-educated and a schoolboy. During her youth years, she married Abolqasem Azad Maraghi, who was a journalist. In the year 1920, before the age of 20, she also published the Women's Letter for women's awareness in Iran about their rights. She published articles on women's rights, hijab, national and international news, and all her articles were written for women. Shahnaz along with her husband, were faced with harassment, imprisonment and exile, shortage of funds and financial problems for the publication of their Newspapers.

Death
Shahnaz Azad died at the age of 60 in 1961.