artifacts, art, costumes and maps. After her death the collection was donated to the Binghamton University by her children. For 15 years Saeedpour published a comprehensive and insightful quarterly on the middle east called Kurdish Life and edited the International Journal of Kurdish Studies as part of the Kurdish Program she established together with anthropologists at Harvard University and Cultural Survival. Before the Gulf War, she organized a speaking tour for Kurdish politician Jalal Talabani, later to become President of Iraq. Death A resident of Fort Plain, New York, Saeedpour died at age 80 of a heart attack on May 30, 2010, in Schenectady, New York. She is survived by her five children and two grandchildren. References External links Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library Museum Collection, Binghamton University Libraries Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library Digital Collection, Binghamton University Libraries 1930 births 2010 deaths 20th-century American Jews Teachers College, Columbia University alumni Kurdish culture People from Barre, Vermont People from Brooklyn People from Fort Plain, New York University of Vermont alumni 21st-century American Jews Jews and Judaism in Vermont