Who is President Ebrahim Raisi's Wife Jamileh Alamolhoda? 12 Things To Know About Her

Jamileh Alamolhoda, born in 1965, is an Iranian writer and scholar who is the widow of the late Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 18, 2024. Read on below for everything you need to know about the woman who is popularly known for once saying that women working and studying is an act of violence.

12 Things To Know About Jamileh Alamolhoda

Here are 12 things you need to know about Jamileh Alamolhoda, the wife of the late Iranian president:

• Her real name is Jamileh-Sadat Alamolhoda
• She was born in 1965 in Mashhad, Imperial State of Iran
• As of 2024, she is around 58 to 59 years old
• Her father is Ahmad Alamolhoda, a member of the Assembly of Experts and a Friday prayer leader in Mashhad while her mother is Sakineh Rikhtegarzadeh
• She attended Tarbiat Modares University where she acquired a doctorate in Philosophy of Education
• She got married to the late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in 1983 at the age of 18
• She had two daughters with him. One of them has a BSc in Physics from Sharif University of Technology while the other has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Tehran.
• She is a writer and a scholar
• As a scholar, she teaches courses like Theoretical Foundations of Educational Management, Anthropology in Islam, Philosophy of Higher Education, to mention a few, at Shahid Beheshti University
• She is also a associate professor as well as a member of the faculty of the Department of Leadership and Educational Development of the School of Educational Sciences and Psychology of Shahid Beheshti University 
• In March 2020, the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution appointed her as the secretary of the “Council for the Transformation and Renovation of the Educational System of the Country”
• In June 2023, during an interview with Venezuelan state TV in June 2023, she claimed that women working and studying is an act of violence