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 ...

Scores of Iranian women posted videos of themselves celebrating the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday — openly dancing on his “dirty grave” after he oversaw a brutal crackdown on 2022 ...

Iranian law mandates conservative dress for women in public. There were massive nationwide protests after a young woman died in "morality" police custody in 2022 for allegedly dressing improperly.

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...

Introduction : The medieval period ; From 1500 to the 1800s ; From the 1800s to the present ; Selecting the poems in this volume ; Translator's note -- A note on the Iranian dynasties -- Map showing ...