More Iranian women are choosing to forgo the country's mandatory hijab. This shift was unthinkable just a few years ago in ...

In many cities around the world, change often starts quietly. It begins with small acts that would seem ordinary anywhere else. In Tehran, those acts stand out in a very different way.

Paniz Faryoussefi, who made history last week as the first woman to conduct the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, says she hopes her ...

In Tehran’s dense traffic, where millions of cars and motorbikes jostle daily for space, a quiet transformation is taking shape. Women, long excluded from the city’s motorbike culture by regulation ...

When West Vancouver psychotherapist and clinical counsellor Poran Poregbal began exploring the inner lives of Iranian women ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ride her yellow scooter through the gridlocked streets of Iran 's capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn't her main ...

Women's professional and cultural lives are still heavily restricted in the conservative Islamic republic, particularly in terms of public performance before mixed-gender audiences.

Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes TEHRAN, Iran -- When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ...