During the 60s and 70s, Iran experienced a cultural effervescence and women's voting rights despite the authoritarian regime ...

When was the last time your mother, sister, wife, or daughter let you forget something that they didn’t like? We Persian ...

An ongoing internet blackout and intensifying crackdowns are obstructing documentation of abuses in Iran, as women human rights defenders face arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment, and prolonged detention.

The new resolution comes amid widespread unrest in Iran, where massive nationwide protests triggered by economic hardship and ...

In Iran, hardline critics are waging a campaign against President Hassan Rouhani to limit his campaign pledge of opening Iran to more social and cultural freedoms. The "culture wars" are as old as the ...

Behind Iran’s ancient sites and legendary hospitality, women are holding together a tourism industry shaped by sanctions and geopolitics. In this World Tourism Network feature, Shahrzad Moayeri shares ...

“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 ...

Iranians’ demand for change is not a political preference, but a civilisational instinct; and a free Iran — rooted in its custodial ethic, committed to life and truth, and governed by those who love ...

Instructor Maryam Ghelich (L) gives women students a lesson in riding motorbikes at a training centre in northern Tehran — ATTA KENARE When she first started learning to ride a motorbike, Iranian ...

In the past religious authorities in Iran also dissuaded women from riding bikes, claiming it was against the code of conduct of modesty that the regime has tried to establish in the country after the ...

A daughter of the Iranian diaspora grapples with feelings of hopefulness and futility during an extraordinary moment of protests.