Iran and Women – Feministe

It’s been a busy week for me and so I haven’t been doing as much meaty blogging as I would have liked, but I wanted to point you all in the direction of two Iran-related articles of note:

1. Iran’s Michelle Obama. I hate the title, but it’s an interesting, if brief, profile of Zahra Rahnavard.

2. From the Ground Up: Democracy and Women’s Rights in Iran. A wonderful piece about exactly what the title says.

Enjoy.

5 thoughts on Iran and Women

Check out, on my blog the campaign ad from one of the opposition/reformist candidates. As I said there, I know that a campaign ad is a campaign ad, and how easy it is to be cynical about them–perhaps especially in a place like Iran–but it took real guts to place two issues specifically related to women’s rights in the ad as prominently as this candidate did.