Roxane Batoul Farmanfarmaian (born February 1955) is a British lecturer in international politics at the University of Cambridge. She is descended from the the deposed Qajar dynasty family, and co-author of "Blood & Oil: Memoirs of a Persian prince" (1997) with Manucher Farmanfarmaian. She founded the Iranian, an independent weekly news magazine in Iran before the revolution. She has written for The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Interview and McCall's.