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You Say You Want a Revolution (in a Loose Headscarf)

Posted by Guest Contributor on 19 Jun 2009 / 0 Comments

This was written by Mimi and originally published at threadbared. Because this is a fashion plus politics blog, I want to post some very brief thoughts about the protests rocking Iran after what some observers are calling a fraudulent election, reinstalling President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against his main opposition, moderate reformer Mir Hossein Mousavi. (For news […]

A Look at Women in Iran 30 years after the Islamic Revolution

Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 11 Feb 2009 / 0 Comments

It has been 30 years since the Islamic Revolution in Iran and Western media has a slew of various features looking at Iran. The subject of many of these features is Iranian women and, the common themes in these stories are that Iranian women have made some progress, but that more progress has to be […]