The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

She sees groups of men, individuals, young, and old men. This is history’s great blind spot — to read and often wonder, as Bita does, where the women are. In The Persians, that course is corrected in ...

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 ...

Fatemeh Soltani,18, was stabbed to death on the streets of Tehran by her father on April 17, according to women’s rights organizations and international media reports. Some reports indicate the father ...

Iranian surgeon Hamidreza Hosnani performs a nose operation at his private clinic in Tehran. All of the women in Iranian model Azadeh's family have had nose surgeries, each feeling the pressure to ...

Although Iranian authorities have widely restricted access to abortion in an attempt to reverse demographic decline, more women are going outside the law to end unwanted pregnancies. According to ...

The women in Tehran-born Sanam Mahloudji’s debut novel The Persians — shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction — know this very intimately. In a dream, one of them is ...

A case-control study in Iranian women found that higher adherence to a healthy plant-based diet significantly reduces breast ...

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will host an in-person illustrated lecture by Dr. Houri ...