Haideh Moghissi in his book Populism and Feminism in Iran has beautifully portrayed the struggle of Iranian women for their legal rights and personal freedom.
Moghissi has also described the attitude of Iranian socialists who refused to support the...
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The Fourth Women's Islamic Games turned out to be a great success for the Iranian women. The most interesting part of the event was to see the Muslim participants in outfit which comply much to the Olympic regulations. Women discarded the headscarves...
Life for women in Iran has really gone haywire with the hold of the tyrannical reign of the Islamic clerics are getting stronger day by day.
After the fall of the Shah Empire in the year 1979, Iranian women are facing too many restrictions...
With just two more days to go, that proud Iranian women, Anousheh Ansari, who gets to be the first women tourist must be having goose bumps at the very thought of her space rendezvous on the board of Russian spacecraft Soyuz with 14 other crew...
The countdown finally begins for Anousheh Ansari, the Iranian-born entrepreneur in United States. Bagging the dream from many other space aspirants Ansari has just three more days left for her space cruise.
The journey is scheduled for 18th of...
The Police forces across Iran are behind the women folks for quite a long time now to tame down their colorful dressing sense. Despite the rigid measures thrown by the clerics, Tehran women hideously tried bearing the scorching summers in lightweight...
Shahla Lahiji, one of the well-known feminist in Iran has accused the government of neglecting women rights. Women in Iran still have a long way to go. However, to bring about changes, the Iranian government will have to take the first step so that the...
Iraqi women burnt alive
Iraq as a nation might have won its freedom three years ago but the plight of women has not changed with the changing times.
Due to the powerful political intervention of its neighboring country Iran, Iraq has not...
Despite the orthodox nature of the society and the world of 'all black abayas' for women in Iran, a very happening form of art is the new fashion statement of the young women generation of the nation.
Tattoo is the latest craze of the young...
Last week Iran kicked off the first international women polo tournament. This event was more of a cultural exploration for the foreign teams, as myth regarding the treatment of women in the Middle East nations is most of the times fabricated and...
The Iranian women in Tehran are preparing to stage a major unauthorized rally to vocalize their demands for more rights to women.
The rally will be joined by some of Iran's leading intellectual leaders such as writers, teachers, painters,...
Does anyone even remember that today was that particular day, when two Iranian women made history by becoming the first two women to have reached the peak of Mount Everest?
30th May 2005 is not only a day to be celebrated for the Iran women but also...
Muslim dress code has always been a much-discussed topic for the media network and in the conservative religious forums as well.
The Tehran Police recently launched a drive to arrest any Iranian women who is seen donning fancy outfits. So far,...
It seems that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is slowly trying to reform the lifestyle of Iran by bringing about little bit of changes here and there in different fields.
We can't say for sure what the man is cooking up his sleeves: but by showing...
Only a few days back, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lifted a ban thereby approving that Iranian women can attend the soccer games.
So inconsistent is the announcements that now the ban is in force again with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme...


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