Education and Family
Ebtekar's father studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and she is reported to have lived with her parents in Upper Darby of Philadelphia for 3 years. Another source lists her as having lived in Philadelphia for six years as a child, where she developed "near-perfect, American-accented English." As a student in Iran she became a supporter of the political Islam of Ali Shariati and began wearing a traditional black chador covering everything except her face.
She holds a BSc degree in laboratory science from Shahid Beheshti University, a MSc and PhD in immunology from Tarbiat Modares University in 1995, where she still teaches. Like some Iranian people (this is a rarity in Iran), she has two names, she was named Massoumeh at birth, but known as Niloufar among friends and relatives.
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