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20 November, 2023 • Joumana Haddad

Bahar: 22 years in the Life of a Compulsory Hijabi in Teheran

Joumana Haddad tells the true story of a young Iranian woman in Tehran, albeit vehicled by fiction.

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20 November, 2023 • Malu Halasa

Iranian Women Photographers: Life, Freedom, Music, Art & Hair

Malu Halasa reviews the latest book on Iranian women photographers by Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh alongside two new books in a similar vein.

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10 April, 2023 • Malu Halasa

Seven Winters in Tehran and the Execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari

Malu Halasa talks to the director of a new documentary exposing the cruelty of Iran's Islamic regime.

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15 October, 2022 • TMR

Homage to Mahsa Jhina Amini & the Women-Led Call for Freedom

In HEROINES, artists pay homage to the late Mahsa Jhina Amini and the women-led uprising for freedom in Iran.

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15 October, 2022 • Kamin Mohammadi

What the Iran Protests Mean for Us—Kamin Mohammadi

British-Iranian writer Kamin Mohammadi is a keen observer of the women-led movement that is roiling Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini.

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