The director, who has been exiled in Germany since May, releases ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig,’ a portrayal of the Women, Life ...

UC Riverside distinguished professor Katayoon “Katie” Dehesh has defied governments, gender expectations, and scientific ...

Meanwhile, a political prisoner is sentenced to death again, a video of a novelist’s grave desecration sparks outrage against ...

A viral video from Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport showed a woman removing a cleric’s turban and wearing it as a scarf during a ...

You saw a lot of year-end lists as we said good riddance to 2024. “The Best…”, “The Top…” or “The Most…” among other ...

Parastoo Ahmadi was arrested by Iranian authorities for violating the regime's dress code for women. Screenshot from ... through the Promotion of the Culture of Chastity and Hijab.

Book critics Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp cast their eyes over recent non-fiction and fiction releases. Here are their ...

Women in Iran including young girls and the elderly ... The country recently pushed for a "draconian law" called the Culture of Chastity and Hijab bill that further threatened the human rights ...

“We should try hard to export our revolution,” Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared, in 1980, after ousting the last of several Iranian monarchies ... dissidents, and women’s personal ...

Shadi Ghadirian’s exhibition, 'Our Stone Age', opens on January 9 at the Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery during Mumbai Gallery Weekend ...

I n December 2024, Iran passed a set of new laws to promote a "culture of chastity and hijab". If any of the Iranian women would go against these laws, they would either be sentenced to death or ...