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Mar 17, 2021 · Dance instructor Boshra and her students find the rhythm as a performance group in Tehran.
Feb 15, 2023 · In November 2022, An Iranian couple, Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiancé, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, both in their early 20s, received prison sentences of more than 10 years after appearing in a video...
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Apr 28, 2023 · In this video, we'll be exploring the colorful and vibrant celebration of a village wedding in Iran. Specifically, we'll be taking a closer look at the traditional Iranian dance performed by...
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My search for women’s dance practice in public spaces in Iran has led me to buried treasure, an incredible resource of unpublished, un-exhibited visual documents, including dance-films and videos using various tactics to evade the heavy surveillance and censorship of women’s bodies in Iran.
Sep 14, 2021 · In this article, I explore how the studio invented a style of Iranian dance that was completely modern and yet presented as deeply rooted in the past, in the process inventing tradition and re-imagining dance culture in modern Iran.
In total 49.8 percent of the university students in Iran are women. With the 2005 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Western media said that women's rights declined. After Ahmadinejad's re-election in 2009, the first female minister was appointed.
7 February 2019. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old...
