20 Questions - Game 268

[cdngooner]

Hard to find someone who fits:
Queen Rania fits every answer, but has been eliminated.
Malala, too young
Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize), too old.
Narges Mohamaddi (Nobel Peace Prize), still lives in prison in Iran.
Several Palestinian activists, but Palestinians have been ruled out.

[cdngooner]

I missed something: the Indo-European question. That eliminates Queen Rania and any Arabic speaker (Arabic is not Indo-European). In the Middle East, only Farsi and Kurdish are.

[Hominidae]

Either born in the current borders of Palestine (Gaza Strip or West Bank), or born to Palestinian parents?

If yes, Queen Rania of Jordan.

I don't think Queen Rania is a native speaker of an Indo-European language. Nor are many people born in Palestine, so this question didn't really help us much. The person is probably either Iranian or Kurdish or something along those lines, or maybe Cypriot, or a European language speaker who was born in the Middle East for some reason.

The person I was thinking of has now been eliminated due to residing in her country of birth.

[Hominidae]

Sorry cdngooner, missed your posts.

Narges Mohamaddi (Nobel Peace Prize), still lives in prison in Iran.

That's who I was thinking of! I could forgive Jamie for seeing "Iranian" and thinking she must be a native speaker of Persian, but she was born into an Azeri family in the Azeri area so is probably a native speaker of Azeri, unless my sense of the linguistic situation there is incorrect.

However, it can't be her.

[Spartaculous]

Sorry cdngooner, missed your posts.

Narges Mohamaddi (Nobel Peace Prize), still lives in prison in Iran.

That's who I was thinking of! I could forgive Jamie for seeing "Iranian" and thinking she must be a native speaker of Persian, but she was born into an Azeri family in the Azeri area so is probably a native speaker of Azeri, unless my sense of the linguistic situation there is incorrect.

However, it can't be her.

That's who I thought you were thinking of.

[cdngooner]

Parvin Ardalan?

[cdngooner]

Parvin Ardalan?

Scratch. She has a book mentioned in Wikipedia, so that would be a "notable written work."

[cdngooner]

Absolutely stumped. Waiting on an answer to Q20

Does she reside in UK or USA?

and our final hint.

[Wattsthematter]

Free guess: Maryam Namazie

[cdngooner]

Maryam Namazie

I hope not. I rejected her on basis that she has several published works listed in Wikipedia.

[damo666]

So I have a guess in mind, but I'm not able to determine with certainty that she is a native speaker of an Indo-European language.

Known primarily as an activist, or for involvement in a major news story?

I would say yes.

What do we make of Jamie's answer rather than a straightforward "yes"?

[Wattsthematter]

Maryam Namazie

I hope not. I rejected her on basis that she has several published works listed in Wikipedia.

I noted that... They're all PDFs with one website link that is no longer active. I'm sure this would count for Jamie, but I didn't have any other guesses after a good bit of looking and wanted to get a free guess in before Q20

[Hominidae]

Free guess: Maryam Namazie

This feels like the correct answer. Good find.

[Jamiet99uk]

Does she reside in UK or USA?

Yes she does.

Final hint: She has dual citizenship of one of the above countries (not the other), and the country of her birth. Her dual citizenship is a major part of the context of how well-known she is.

[Jamiet99uk]

I missed something: the Indo-European question. That eliminates Queen Rania and any Arabic speaker (Arabic is not Indo-European). In the Middle East, only Farsi and Kurdish are.

I am not a language expert but this is not correct based on what Wikipedia says.

[Jamiet99uk]

Free guess: Maryam Namazie

No.

[Hominidae]

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

[Jamiet99uk]

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Correct!

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, born 26 December 1978, an Iranian-British dual citizen who was detained in Iran from 2016 until 2022 as part of a long running dispute between Britain and Iran.

Well done.

[damo666]

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Has to be her

[damo666]

See?