Women
2002
Archive
Moody
Rudi
Sublime stupidity of much of TV news
By Asghar Massombagi
Beh
lezzat-e booseh fekr kon
The (thought of a) kiss
By M.M.
Here,
I'm Mary Jones
"If you have no hope, how do you expect us to?"
By Maryam Nabavi
Shahreno
Women of Tehran's pre-revolution brothel district
By Docheshmeh Bina
Against
the wind
Pioneer women pilots
By Abbas Atrvash
You
did it
Single mom finishes graduate school
By her friends
Make
it your bible, bubba
How to woo a middle-aged Iranian woman
By Azam Nemati
Different
paths
Distances created by culture, money,
religion...
By M. Taheri
Me
and my iron
The possibilities are endless
By Marjaneh Zahed-
Khorassani-Kindersley
Days
of our lives
A memoir in comic strips
By Marjane Satrapi
My
brain
The big head vs. the little head
By Siamack Baniameri
A
separate world
Novel
By Anahita Firouz
Piety
among atheists
The whole house would seem more humble
By Siamak Vossoughi
Khaleh
Kobra
Photo essay: Fisher woman
By Omid Salehi
Stepping
out
Paintings
By Shirin Ghandchi
Perhaps
or maybe
Still no word from Abbas
By Heather-ley Peckham
Now
what?
Leaving home
By Lilly Benevis
Mom & marriage
Coincidentally my parents AND Soheil are the people who
bring me the most strife
By Lilly Benevis
Living
canvas
Body painting
By Martin Armand
Zapped
One woman's laser hair removal experience
By Mona Shomali
Just
like a woman
What a wonderful feeling, Just to know that you are near
By Babak Khiavchi
My
husband claims she was the perfect wife
My Persian mother-in-law
By Bev Pogreba
Ms.
Cookandclean
Photography: Women
By Shadafarin Ghadirian
Perfect
Forough
How a postcard for Forough Farrokhzad got designendBy
Jahanshah Javid
Drawings by Sadaf Kiani
Lower
education
Universities, democracy and girls' education
By Mohammad Ghaed
Aayaa
tajaavoz jensee hatk hormat ast?
Reducing reape to something less than a crime it is
By Maral Karimi
The
Big Three O
The glorious things about reaching 30
By Shappi Khorsandi
Nesfe
jahan away
She is leaving us, laying in that hospital bed, half the world away
By Assal Badrkhani
Zan
zalil
Most Iranian women like to keep their man on a short leash
By Siamack Baniameri
Booseh
The kiss
By Hossein Nushazar
My
sister is gay
We are just like everybody else
By Abstre
Mixed
and matched
I heard the sensationalism that others described as fact and
decided he's 'the one'
By Nathalie Taghaboni
Feeling
on top of the world
Determination beats everything
By Mehrnoush Barmaki
The
indirect approach
Women and broad-based sustainable development
By Fatima Farideh Nedjat
Fulfilling
expectations
Who is an intern?
By Farzin Foroughi
Bridal
imports
We are dealing with a generation that is a bit shaky upstairs
By Siamack Baniameri
No
wonder
Our most natural and almost universal desire
By Ali Khalili
1,
2, 3, 4
Photo essay: Streets of Tehran
By Ali Khaligh
Raahe
tey shodeh
Remembering an old flame
By Yazdaneh Amiryazdani
Choice & respect
Everything Iranians do, other Iranians take personally
By SSK
Thanks
for 25 years
Together
By Je Sea
The
Godmother
"I gained knowledge enough to realize how little I know."
By Azam Nemati
Roohparvar
Iran's "Om Kolthum"
Fairuz
in Paris
Singing of love and Palestine
By Hossein Shahidi
Sadaf
khaaliye yek tanhaaee
I can still hear his warm voice
By Sadaf Kiani Abbasian
Who
are you wearing that perfume for?
I am stronger, wiser and better
By Yalda Bidar
Ladies
next
Look at the mess we men have made
By Mehran Payandeh
You
frustrate me
I need to know how to make Iranian men understand, "No,
thank you."
By Golden Flower Eyes
Taaghoot
va Yaghoot har do zan boodand
Fiction
By Elahe Arouzi &
Homa Katouzian
Conception of gender roles
Reza Shah's "Women's Awakening Project"
By Camron Michael Amin
Just
as normal as you
For all who can't bear non-virgin yet unmarried Iranian women
By M Taheri
Shopkeeper
feminists
Is there really any sincere determination in us to solve our
movement's problems?
By Minoo Salehi
The
human side
I tried to show the evolution that is taking place within families
like Shahrbanoo's all over the country
By Hamid Rahmanian
Recipe
for the perfect woman
Poem
By Mitra K
Not
Johnny or Jane
I'm a hairy monster
By Marjaneh Joon
Three
days in Denver
Iranian Women's Studies Foundation conference
By Elham Gheytanchi
Soraya
Fragments of a life
By Cyrus Kadivar
With 24 photos
They
don't know
That little 12-year-old with all her insecurities is still inside
of me
By Arezou Raeisghasem
Just
another soccer widow
I had no intention of being replaced by a game of football
By Parissa Sohie
Ordinary
(Muslim) woman
Shahrbanoo demystifying many cliches about Islam and Muslims
in Iran
By Omid S. Marvi
Setting
the record straight
Poem
By Solmaz Sharif
Destiny and
the flamenco dancer
Short story
By Persian Poetress
Open
case
My husband is in effect a victim. A scapegoat
An interview with Mehrangiz Kar
By Fariba Amini
Out
the door
Photo essay: Women
By Ali Rafiei
What
are men made of?
I never let any man get close to me, and if he happens to be
Iranian, I run!
By S.M.
Helen
of Tus
The first known Iranian-Americans
By Behrouz Bahmani
Going
global
Zahedan IT project one of several aimed at making information technology
available to youth
By Sussan Tahmasebi
I'm
not his slave
My husband jumped on me and started beating me up
By Siamack Baniameri
My
eyes adored you
When she spoke of masses and injustice, there laid a thundering
river of emotions
By Kaveh Ahangar
Baraaye
nakhosteen najvaagar-e eshq
For...
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
Unsuspecting souls
Mother anew, to a 5-year-old village outcast
By M. Maleki
My
day
The best I could give my son was the example of my own life
lived fully
By Zara Houshmand
Simin's
sacrifice
I will be telling your story for years to come
By Nahal Rose Lalefar
No
dolls in Damascus
Globalization of another sort
By Laleh Khalili
This
is your mom
I realized how blind I had become
By Siamac Naeemi
The
inevitable
It's just something we Iranian girls eventually have to do
By Raha N.
Evolution
I am your prostitute, saint, bitch, nymph,
mother, daughter, sister, and friend
By Sahar Imanabadi
Romantically
challenged
Finding the courage to love and love again
By Ali Khalili
No
refunds
I want an arranged marriage
By Assal Badrkhani
Marathon woman
I will be running with a black and white checkered scarf
By Azin Nezami
That torsheedeh
feeling
Do I really need a spouse to feel complete?
By Azadeh
Aghaye
Hosseini
It is for me a necessity to shed my dahan ghorsi
By Setareh Sabety
Nothing
is sacred
Graphic design
Illustrations by Moe
Tobeh
I knew there and then that I would never again be the same Sarvenaz
By Sarvenaz
Berkeley
phase?
Berkeley women of color silent no more
By Shadi Rahimi
Haft
seegheh dar yek rooz
"Temporary marriage"
By Amir Mehdi Noorbakhsh
Malakeye
Norooz
Tajikistan's "New Year Queen"
Berkeley
phase?
Berkeley women of color silent no more
By Shadi Rahimi
Haft
seegheh dar yek rooz
"Temporary marriage"
By Amir Mehdi Noorbakhsh
Vaqtee
beh jaaye to hastam
On Women's Day
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
Beh
monaasebate rooze jahaaniye zan
On Women's Day
By dAyi Hamid
One
Iranian woman
You do not have to have read de Beauvoir to be a feminist. You just have to
have common sense
Audio: Tajlil
az Kobra Khanom
By Setareh Sabety
Harf-e
beepardeh
On the whole virginity thing
By dAyi Hamid
Beethoven's
lost symphony
The neighbor's son was a violinist. And I loved him.
By Niki Tehranchi
Will
not repeat itself
Brief history of relationships between men and women in Iran
By Massoume Price
Simply
complicated
The one thing I wanted most -- a tormenting love affair
By Azam Nemati
I
and thou
On the demise of my mother, the late Batool (Amir) Mazaheri
By Moji Agha
Humiliating.
Period.
Divorce procedures -- for women
By Setareh Sabety
Me
the virgin
In an Iranian girl's dictionary, there's no definition for "dating
for fun"
By Linda Ghassemi
Look
at the evidence
Prophet Muhammad and women's rights
By Persia Lover
To
be heard
Of hope and despair: Rakhshan Bani Etemad's Our Times
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Unveiling
of women & progress
On the idealized women of the other
By Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
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