O n a busy sidewalk outside a café, a group of young people, many of them women, bob their heads to the beat of “Seven Nation ...

Frames,” which screened at Thessaloniki Film Festival this week, is composed of a series of creepy scenes from auditions ...

Defiance of hijab requirements has grown widespread across Iran. The government seems wary of cracking down, fearing unrest.

Iranian authorities brutally suppressed the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, but women in Iran and the diaspora are continuing the fight in small but meaningful ways.

Protests have broken out across Iran over the death of a woman held by morality police for "unsuitable attire", with ...

Iran’s regime has institutionalized gender discrimination. Where is the coordinated campaign to hold Iran accountable?

Depictions of unveiled Iranian women may reproduce misogynistic assumptions that the veil is a universal marker for oppression. In recent weeks, the world has watched Iranian women take to the streets ...

Iranian women have taken to the streets to protest the country’s repressive laws against women, and women in neighboring Afghanistan are taking notice. Widespread protests erupted across cities in ...

Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz doesn’t know how to start a movie. The first time we see Leila, her alter ego in the autobiographical, warm-hearted, personal, funny but also somewhat ...

As we have come to expect, the Iranian regime reacted to the uprising with horrific brutality. But in the end, the courageous women who were on the streets shouting one of the most profound yet easily ...