These warriors proved that women are not only capable of leading ... a queen during the Greco-Persian Wars, was renowned for ...

To Azadeh, smoothing out the bump in what Iranians would call the "Persian nose" she was born with proved a lucrative investment. Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian women have been ...

Jabir, meanwhile, holds his The Secrets of Chemistry as he watches the group from afar, alongside the Persian polymath Razi ... its collection of works by women artists from the region.