From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country. The government was replaced with an Islamic republic, which ...
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Before the Veil: How Iranian Women Once Lived with Freedom—and What the Revolution Took Away
Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...
Before revolution toppled the Iranian monarchy in 1979, Iran and Israel exchanged tourists and trade instead of missiles and drones. 1 Iranian diplomat Reza Saffinia salutes Israeli soldiers as he ...
Strange to think, but there was a time when the United States’ most steadfast ally in the Middle East was Iran. In 1953, the C.I.A. had backed a coup that ousted Mohammad Mossadegh, the popular Prime ...
Born Faegheh Atashin, she’s been known as Googoosh since birth. In her new memoir, “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice,” the singer ...
Raised on Zionism and the Iranian culture of their immigrant parents and grandparents, young people watched the war with dread and hope. Iranian-Jewish American teens inhabit a unique identity at the ...
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