Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their ...

Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. Then the Islamic Revolution swept the country.

In the wake of the Women, Life, Freedom movement, one of the most significant political uprisings in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian society experienced a period of upheaval.The ...

As Iran was a constitutional monarchy before the revolution, theocratic elements were effectively grafted on top of the ...

Among one of the many questions raised since the Middle Eastern crisis hit headlines following a sudden initial missile ...

For some observant Muslim women, the head covering is a sign of piety before God and modesty in front of men outside their families. In Iran, the hijab – and the all-encompassing black chador ...

When in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution, opposition to the Shah united most of Khomeini’s followers. While Khomeini spoke of an Islamic democracy and insisted he had ...

Over the past 150 years, Iranian women have consistently played key roles in the country’s major political movements, from the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and the oil nationalization ...

Echoes of a Revolutionary Uprising in Iran." "A cultural revolution is under way,” she said. “Within families, in the private sphere, hierarchical relationships are changing.

Women will overthrow the Islamic system established in Iran after the 1979 revolution even if the authorities survive a military conflict, Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said in a message ...

Women in Iran going without hijabs as 2nd ... tracks in the decades following the 1979 Islamic Revolution now goes ... minds more than ever before,” sociologist Simin ...