It created opportunities for women to engage more actively in public life, including in education and the workforce. One of the most significant achievements of Iranian women in the post-revolutionary ...

Iranian skier Samaneh Beyrami Baher says the country’s women are talented and can achieve great things in sports.

Women in particular have suffered under the current regime, facing draconian restrictions that seek to erase their role in public life. But Iranian women are rising, leading protests and risking ...

Samaneh Beyrami Baher of Iran completed the women's 5km free cross-country skiing event at the Harbin Asian Winter Games in a ...

When it comes to art corresponding with life, consider the authoritarian drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig, written and ...

Mohammadi is a 45-year-old workers’ rights activist from Mianeh in Eastern Azerbaijan who resided in Rasht - before being ...

As women’s right continue to be crushed by the Taliban, a series of solidarity events will be held in Belfast with a theme of ...

In a novel inspired by her own midlife dating experiences, Niloufar Lamakan was keen to defy expectations of age-appropriate ...

And at that point, I thought it would be very interesting to make a film about a family like his, with this profound rift at ...

Life, Freedom” protests. For many Iranians, aggressive police enforcement of laws that require women to wear the hijab adds insult to the injuries inflicted by Iran’s economic isolation.

A look at the future of the Sundance Film Festival and six of the films that stood out in the crowd this year.

The two filmmakers are being investigated for 'propaganda against the Islamic Republic' and 'propagating debauchery.' ...