The lives of women and girls continue to be systemically devalued in Iran today. A new report is out from a UN fact-finding ...

Tahmineh Milani's, "Two Women", an Iranian film released in 1999, is an example of a modern Iranian film with a progressive attitude. She comments on her film, "The two female characters in my ...

Iranian officials have flogged a popular singer who posted a song online urging women to remove their mandatory headscarves over a conviction for possessing and consuming alcohol, his lawyer and ...

The 2022 protests demonstrated that women, alongside other oppressed and disadvantaged groups, are at the heart of these movements. They will play a central role in shaping the future of Iranian ...

The aspiration to be rid of a cabal that has waged war on Iranian women and destroyed the nation will never be extinguished. Any telling of modern Iranian history that does not begin with how the ...

Nafisi’s was one of several popular memoirs by Iranian women published during this period, including Firoozeh Dumas’s Funny in Farsi (2003) and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis series (2000–03).

PARIS, France (AFP) — A prominent Iranian pop singer who made a song urging women to remove their headscarves said Wednesday that he was willing to pay “a price for freedom” after being ...