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 ...

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 ...

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 ...