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Iranian women have played an important role in gaining international recognition for Iranian art and in particular Iranian cinema. Since the rise of the Iranian New Wave of Persian cinema, Iran has produced record numbers of film school graduates; each year more than 20 new directors, many of them women, make their debut films.
An eclectic cultural elasticity has been said to be one of the key defining characteristics of the Iranian identity and a clue to its historical longevity. [9] Furthermore, Iran's culture has manifested itself in several facets throughout the history of the Iranian Plateau as well as of the South Caucasus, West Asia, and Central Asia.
Shirin Aliabadi (10 March 1973 – 1 October 2018; Persian: شیرین علیآبادی) was an Iranian contemporary multidisciplinary visual artist.Her artistic oeuvre primarily addressed themes related to women's issues, gender representation, and the beauty industry.
Effat Tejaratchi (1917–1999), first Iranian woman to fly an airplane; Fateme Asadi (1960 – 1984), first Iranian 'martyr' women whose body was found during post-war explorations. Ladan and Laleh Bijani (1974–2003), conjoined twins; Qudsiyyih Khanum Ashraf (1889–1976), Bahá'i teacher and midwife
An Iranian woman wearing leather boots in 2018. Ancient Persians used to wear leather high-heeled boots. Both Persian women and men wore varieties of "tall" boots. In modern era, boot became a main and common footwear among Iranian women, and this influenced the Iranian fashion industry. The sale of women's boots in Iran was reported ten times ...
An Iranian teenager who claims she had 50 plastic surgeries to make herself look more like her idol is turning heads online. Sahar Tabar, 19, from Tehran, Iran, says she underwent dozens of ...
With Persian literature in mind, occasional paintings featured women with an "outward gaze" which represents "directly addressing the reader" [8] and is seen in many narrative paintings from Shirin and Khusraw, Yusuf and Zulaykha, and Shaykh San'an. In contrast to traditional postures and positions of women in 19th-century Qajar art, was a ...
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died in police custody last week after she was accused of not wearing her hijab properly and was detained by Tehran’s morality police.