In her bright Paris apartment, Marjane Satrapi makes coffee, her cat rolling at a visitor’s feet. The author of the internationally acclaimed graphic novel Persepolis, about a young girl coming of age ...
Of the many paradoxes presented by the Islamic Republic of Iran, the most confounding remains its stubborn preoccupation with regulating women. The 1979 revolution that brought fundamentalist clerics ...
In the ongoing struggle for democracy in Iran, women have emerged as some of the most influential and unifying voices, championing secularism, equality and inclusive governance. Over the past 150 ...
Hosted on MSN
Before the Veil: How Iranian Women Once Lived with Freedom—and What the Revolution Took Away
Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...
More Iranian women are choosing to forgo the country's mandatory hijab. This shift was unthinkable just a few years ago in ...
Young people across Iran have been leading a dramatic change in social mores in recent months. “We have a fearless young ...
PARIS — In her bright Paris apartment, Marjane Satrapi makes coffee, her cat rolling at a visitor's feet. The author of the internationally acclaimed graphic novel Persepolis, about a young girl ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback