Bahaipedia:Today's featured individual/January 18

Martha Root

Hasan Balyuzi was a Hand of the Cause of God and prominent Iranian Bahá’í. He was born in Shiraz, Iran in Sept. 1908, he studied at the American University of Beirut and the London School of Economics. He worked for BBC in the Persian Section, part of his work involved translating English literature into Persian. To this day many of his translations remain the standard Persian versions. In 1941 he married Mary Brown and together they had five sons. He remarked, "A girl has not been born into our family for two hundred years." He is well known for authoring many books on the Bahá’í Faith.