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May 2013

May 02, 2013

Propelling Iran’s Bad Rep

When I was growing up in a small city on Canada’s East Coast, many of...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

The Right to Play or Creeping Sharia? FIFA Overturns its Headscarf Ban

FIFA has overturned its headscarf ban, enforced since 2007, on women playing soccer with their...

April 2012

April 05, 2012

Fashion Designers, How Not to Study Gender, and More on Iran’s Women Ninjas

An eclectic round-up of some articles of interest elsewhere on the internet: A Muslim participant...

February 2012

February 22, 2012

Playing on Old Fears: Coverage of Iran’s Female Ninjas

Amid speculations that Iran has made advances in nuclear technology for the purpose of making...

August 2011

August 08, 2011

The Guardian Turns a Water Pistol Fight into an Islamic Wet t-Shirt Contest

I found it refreshing to see pictures of a young Iranians taking part in a...

July 2011

July 25, 2011

Brainless Badly Veiled Women

Golnaz Esfandiari writes about a cartoon by a hard-line news agency: "The cartoon suggests that...

May 2011

May 10, 2011

Do Greens Represent Iran’s Women’s Movement?

This was written by Sevda Zenjanli and originally appeared at insideIRAN.org. While the Iranian authorities...

March 2011

March 03, 2011

Diving for Pearls: Robert Adanto’s Film

Pearls on the Ocean Floor, directed by Robert Adanto in 2010, profiles female artists who...

November 2010

November 29, 2010

Within a Dream World: A Look at “Women Without Men”

Women Without Men, directed by Shirin Neshat, looks at the visually evocative and at times...

August 2010

August 23, 2010

A Woman Without Hijab is Like a Chair with Three Legs

If you still haven’t figured out that wearing black chadors will save your worldly soul...

June 2010

June 21, 2010

For Neda: HBO Documents the 2009 Iranian Elections

As I snuggled on the couch to watch HBO’s documentary on Neda Agha-Soltan, I knew...

December 2009

December 21, 2009

Tavakoli’s Triumph: Scores in Chadors

Disclaimer: The purpose of this post is not to side with either the government or...

July 2009

July 20, 2009

Dreyfuss and Iran’s “Women Commandos”

If you’ve been following coverage of the fallout from the recent Iranian elections, you have...

May 2009

May 07, 2009

The Guardian’s First Lady Faux Pas

During an election campaign, we often get articles focusing on the wives of male candidates....

September 2008

September 09, 2008

Iranian women continue to fight the system…

...but somehow the news article that covers it decides to completely change the subject to...