During the 60s and 70s, Iran experienced a cultural effervescence and women's voting rights despite the authoritarian regime and censorship of Reza Pahlavi: the New Wave of cinema, existentialism in ...

Strait of Hormuz tensions flare in 2026, revisit Operation Praying Mantis—how one mine hit on USS Samuel B. Roberts sparked a ...

Iran is no stranger to such unrest. In 1979, similar circumstances led to the Iranian revolution. However, Iranians soon became disappointed that the revolution did not deliver what they had been ...

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a complete turnaround for the Iranian religion, politics, economy, and culture. Although it is referred to as a “religious revolution,” it was more of a reaction to ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Visitors attend an exhibition called “In Women’s Words,” which displays works by modern Iranian women artists. The works are from the collection of the Tehran Museum of ...

Iranian History 1945-79 / Houchang Chehabi -- Historiography of Modern Iranian Art / Hamid Keshmirshekan -- Redefining Modernism: Pluralist Art Before the 1979 Revolution / Fereshteh Daftari -- The ...

It has been a month since the internet was cut off in Iran. I know nothing—and it is precisely this not-knowing that allows me to think from multiple positions at once: from myself, from my brother, ...