IndieWire looks at recent films from Jafar Panahi, Nader Saei-Var, and more to consider how hijab is represented in Iranian cinema.

The Iranian film Bidad has won the Special Jury Award at the Karlovy Vary Festival. Director Soheil Beiraghi, who faces ...

I Don't Want To Be A Good Woman is an abstract walking simulator that depicts the experience of being a young girl in Iran - a country that, as characterised by UN human rights investigators in ...

What is a dissident? In an autocracy, standing against the rulers could mean harassment, prison, torture, even death.

Rowshan Kiani has spent almost every weekend at the State Capitol since 2021, calling for freedom and safety for the women in ...

Golriz Ghahraman on the trauma and online attacks that broke her down, the mistakes she made, and the work she’s done — ...

Get ready to cope” was the message from an aid worker to women returning to Taliban rule in Afghanistan after their expulsion ...

Muslim African-American women in the U.S. sometimes wear a hijab to signal their religious affiliation. They also want to dispel the assumption that all African-Americans are Christians, and that only ...

She’s one of two Muslim women suing Orange County sheriff’s deputies accused of forcing them to take off their hijabs.

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