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Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat is renowned for her photography series and films, which often address the social, political and cultural dimensions of women in Islamic societies. Rodolfo ...
It’s a mistake to leave out human rights when President Trump’s administration sits down with Iran over its nuclear program.
Mariam Rahmani’s debut novel is both charmingly familiar and totally unpredictable.
A growing number of women have defied authorities by discarding their veils after nationwide protests that followed the death in September 2022 of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of ...
Masoumeh Ebtekar, a professor at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, and Simindokht Shirvani-Arani ... Launched by the Council of the Eurasian Women’s Forum and Rosatom, the first international ...
My Favourite Cake' directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha have been given a suspended jail sentence in Iran for ...
"My social media exposé." The Iranian regime reacted by calling her and unveiled women "prostitutes," she said. They arrested hundreds of women. Iran's Revolutionary Court has threatened women ...
A self-described women’s rights activist who’s been targeted by the Iranian regime several times since fleeing the country in 2009, Alinejad told a jury in Manhattan federal court that she’d ...
The months-long uprising was sparked by the death of 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in September that year after she was arrested for allegedly not observing Iran’s mandatory ...
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said France had arrested an Iranian woman who supported Palestinians, but said Tehran was still trying to gather more details about her case.