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.

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 ...

The news reporting on Iran has encouraged a tendency to see the Iranian state as homogeneous, highly ideological and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...