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Daryabari began focusing her career on philanthropy where in 2008 she founded the Bita
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Additional endowments have included $ 2 million for the
Shahnama Project at Pembroke College in 2013, a $ 1.5 million gift to the University of California, Davis in 2015 to broaden its Persian studies program, and $ 5 million to UC Berkeley in 2016 for the study of Iranian languages, literature,
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in 1994 and they had two children together, a daughter, Misha
Kordestani, and a son, Milan Kordestani. Daryabari and Kordestani separated in 2007, and Daryabari married Reza Malek, a surgeon and medical entrepreneur, in 2009. They divorced in 2016. Daryabari married Iranian poet and singer
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in 2012 and being named a World
Affairs Council Honoree of the Year in 2015. In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from Golden Gate University. In 2022 she was an honoree by the
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Daryabari has received numerous awards and recognition for her work including Golden Gate
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Daryabari is the founder of the Unique Zan
Foundation, a social service organization that works with academic institutions and organizations for women in the Middle East. In 2016,
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