[Mb-civic] FW: Space entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari is a role model for all

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From: Shahla Samii <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:25:02 -0400
Subject: Space entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari is a role model for all

Up, up, and away!
Space entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari is a role model for all

  October 5, 2004
iranian.com

  On Monday morning when SpaceShipOne climbed 368,000  feet into space
to claim the $10 million Ansari  X Prize, Anousheh Ansari, founder and
CEO of Telecom Technologies,  also climbed one step closer to her dream
of going into space as  well >>> News

The Ansari X Prize is officially named after Amir and Anousheh  Ansari
of Dallas TX, to reflect their generous multi-million dollar  donation
to the world's first privately funded space program. Both  Anousheh and
Amir Ansari, who were born in Iran, have always had  a dream of
traveling into space and believe that their donation  will help others
realize this goal.

  Mrs. Ansari is the perfect example, even in the words of the Arab  7th
century prophet Mohammed, of "Persians that aspire to  reach the
heavens in search of knowledge and wisdom." Indeed,  Mrs. Ansari is a
role model for all Iranians and Iranian Americans  today.

  Born in 1968, Mrs. Anousheh moved to the US at the age of 16. She
studied electrical and computer engineering at George Mason University,
  earning her masters degree in Electrical Engineering at The George
Washington University.

Early in her career, Mrs. Ansari worked for MCI and COMSAT specializing
  on architectural designs for SS7 and ISDN networks. She authored
numerous technical papers and has two patents for her work on Automated
  Operator Services and Wireless Service Node. She also served as
representative at the American National Standard Institute Technical
Subcommittees.

  Many Iranians recognize her from the cover of Working Woman magazine,
announcing her the winner of the 2000 National Entrepreneurial
Excellence award, and winner of the 1999 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur
of the Year for the Technology and Communications category.

  In 1994, she and her husband founded their company Telecom
Technologies  in Richardson Texas. TTI, a supplier of hi-tech
softswitch based  solutions for network and service providers, was
estimated worth  $600 million in 2001.

  Today, Mrs. Ansari and her husband live in Plano Texas. Their names
will go down in history as the first persons to help realize commercial
  space flight, reaching up to the heavens, a dream Persians have  long
had since the days of Maragheh, Samarkand, and Jundi Shapur.

  Mrs. Ansari's story is a stark reminder to us all of the impeccable
talents our women and daughters in Iran have, and that if  provided
with the freedom and the necessary tools for growth, what  celestial
heights they can obtain.

Mrs. Ansari's story should prove an example that in the new millenium,
the value of women is measured by the height of their outstanding
achievements, and not by the length of their Hijab, and size or
tightness of their manteaus.

Let us try to appreciate what the  women and daughters of Persia have
to offer to our civilization  in the dawn of the space age  millenium.
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http://www.iranian.com/Kasraie/2004/October/Ansari/index.html

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