Farshid Banání
Farshid Banání | |
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| Born | June 3, 1941 Iran |
| Died | October 2, 2006 Newton, Massachusetts, USA |
| NSA member | Uganda & Central Africa ???? - ???? |
Farshid "Ben" Banání (June 3, 1941 - October 2, 2006) was a Persian Bahá’í who pioneered to Africa with his family in childhood and later settled in America.
Biography[edit]
Banání was born in Iran in 1941. His father was Músá Banání and he went to Kampala, Uganda, with his parents when they pioneered in 1951. He later moved to England where he attended Malvern College and he then went to America where he attended Yale staying first in McClellan Hall and then Pierson College.[1]
After graduating from Yale Banání went to Iran where he completed his compulsory military service and he then served as a training officer for the American Peace Corps in Iran. He then moved to Uganda where he worked as an English teacher and studied anthropology at Maquere University and as of 1966 he was serving on the National Spiritual Assembly of Uganda & Central Africa.[2] At some point he returned to England where he married Lili Moshiri in 1972 and they moved to Canada where he worked as a management consultatant for the Arthur D. Little Company. In 1978 the Arthur D. Little Company transferred him to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States and he settled in Boston with his family.[1]
After moving to Massachusetts Banání founded the Banání Corporation, his own real estate development company, and began restoring buildings in Western Massachussetts and was particularly active in Back Bay, Boston, joining the Neighborhood Association and serving as president of the body. In 2003 he retired and he passed three years later survived by his wife Lili, a son Darius, and a daughter Tara.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://yale62.org/obituaries/banani.html
- ↑ Baha'i News (1966). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 425, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
