|
This page is updated irregularly. For the all features see
here.
Articles
Berkeley
phase?
Berkeley women of color silent no more
By Shadi Rahimi
Haft
seegheh dar yek rooz
"Temporary marriage"
By Amir Mehdi Noorbakhsh
Vaqtee
beh jaaye to hastam
On Women's Day
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
Beh monaasebate
rooze jahaaniye zan
On Women's Day
By dAyi Hamid
One
Iranian woman
You do not have to have read de Beauvoir to be a feminist. You just have to have
common sense
Audio: Tajlil
az Kobra Khanom
By Setareh Sabety
Harf-e
beepardeh
On the whole virginity thing
By dAyi Hamid
Beethoven's
lost symphony
The neighbor's son was a violinist. And I loved him.
By Niki Tehranchi
Will
not repeat itself
Brief history of relationships between men and women in Iran
By Massoume Price
Simply
complicated
The one thing I wanted most -- a tormenting love affair
By Azam Nemati
I and
thou
On the demise of my mother, the late Batool (Amir) Mazaheri
By Moji Agha
Humiliating.
Period.
Divorce procedures -- for women
By Setareh Sabety
Me
the virgin
In an Iranian girl's dictionary, there's no definition for "dating for
fun"
By Linda Ghassemi
Look
at the evidence
Prophet Muhammad and women's rights
By Persia Lover
To
be heard
Of hope and despair: Rakhshan Bani Etemad's Our Times
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Unveiling
of women & progress
On the idealized women of the other
By Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Gender ideology
To what extent are equal rights for women tied to issues of globalization?
By Jane Bayes and Nayereh
Aspects
of modernity
On Iranian history and gender
By Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
On the outskirts
Photo essay
By Javad Montazeri
Java
Javad's
They were all there for one reason only
By Niki Tehranchi
Gorgeous
brown eyes
I felt this weird feeling come over me
By Sharareh Shirazi
Joft
Looking for security
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
Accidental
Eden
Overwhelmed by Iranian women's beauty
By Roozbeh Shirazi
Darke
maa shodan
Traditional vs. modern notions of marriage
By Maral Karimi
This
curtain of cloth
Sometimes I hate it. Sometimes I value it
By Gelareh Asayesh
Giving
away faithlessness
... by putting forth grand questions about religion
By Massud Alemi
Making
sense of faith and culture
Women turn the most patriarchal elements of shari'a law to their advantage
By Fereydoun Safizadeh
Questions
of faith and freedom
Does the exercise of power by a woman make her a prostitute?
By Darya Allen-Attar
Ensaanam
man
Poem
By Partow Nooriala
Living
grandma's dream
Her intelligence, stamina, and persistence gave me inspiration
By Farzaneh Fouladi
Let's
be irrational -- together
I want to have PMS too
By Masoud Maghami
We
are the victims
Women: Foremost victims of fundamentalist fanatics
By Setareh Sabety
Shaazdeh
Who needs them?
By Azam Nemati
The cockroach
murder
Short story
By Majid
Cockroaches
Poem
By Kathy Koupai
Red
card
A match between me and my suitor
By Sanaz Salehi
Reaching
for the sun
Plagued by dark thoughts of life and death
By Meysa Maleki
The
last mission
Short story
By Niki Tehranchi
Steep stairs
Novel
By Layla Dowlatshahi
And
for what?
A love letter from New York, in ruins
By Laleh Khalil
1, 2,
3
Royal wives
Excerpts from "Hamsaraane Shah" by Bahram Afrasiabi (2001, Mahtab Publishers,
Tehran).
Nimehye
aashkaar
Arrest of Tahmineh Milani
From Iran
Adam
va havaa beh ravaayati deegar
Adam & Eve
By Saeed Tavakkol
Haqe entekhaab
Thinking of her father, at a film fest
By Namdar Nasser
Come
here
Short story
By Azar Dokht
"Real"
irooni woman
Fataneh
Niki Tehranchi
This
moving shadow
Short story
By Zolaykha Soleimani
Parvaneh's
memories
Khatereh Parvaneh sings again, for women only
Najmeh Fakhraie
From
utopia to reality
"Women Without Men"
By Asghar Massombagi
Cheraa
ezdevaaj nakardeham (2)
Why I haven't married
By Namdar Nasser
Flesh
& blood
About a short story
By Reza Ordoubadian
Where
is it?
Beep beep beep beep. BINGO.
Siamack Baniameri
Mary
"Stepfather" from hell
By Tannaz Ebadollahi
Super agent
CIA should recruit Iranian women
By Niki Tehranchi
Shahla
Women's rights advocates were rare in 1962
By Abbas Atrvash
Hug a tree
Beating suicidal tendencies
By Yana Youhana
Divine
discrimination
Women & "religious" law in Israel and Iran
By Nakissa Sedaghat
Nazanin's search for Nirvana
Diary
Nooneh
Short stories
Adult subject
The
first stone
How could I promote Iran as a destination for tourism?
By Setareh Sabety
July 3, 2001
Javidnameh
Looking for a grave
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
July 3, 2001
Voices in the
dark
Photo essay
By Hassan Zerehi and Nasrin Almasi
July 3, 2001
Vezvezee
God's way of preventing Iranian women from ruling the earth
By Niki Tehranchi
June 19, 2001
Loving
a farangi
He holds me up to the air and the winds and the sunshine
By Laleh Khalili
June 5, 2001
Break
the cycle
Raise your sons to respect and admire women
By Dokhi Fassihian
What have you to offer me?
Question for Iranian men
By Azadeh
Googoosh,
the myth
Decoding a popular phenomenon
By Setareh Sabety
Romanticizing
the past
Googoosh is no feminist heroine
By Ramin Tabib
Cooking with
words
Goljan's Bread
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Good old-fashioned
sexuality
Among the "old-fashioned" one finds more openmindedness
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
The key
Be very careful who you give it to
By Yasaman Rohani
In love
again
Tehran falls into my pattern of love
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
My
right foot
Or how I married a podiatrist
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Dr. Butcher
Avoid cesarean operations
By Sheila K.
April 26, 2001
Khanoom
doctor
Unusual way of becoming a "doctor"
By Daniel Zangeneh
March 8, 2001
Survivor
My mother is trying to learn the Internet
By Yasaman J
March 6, 2001
Zanaan-e
bozorg-e sarzamin-e man
Women's Day & women in Iran
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
March 6, 2001
PMS
Persian Male Syndrome
By Siamack Baniameri
December 27, 2000
Negotiating
with the devil
They sounded like they were trading camels
By Siamack Baniameri
November 28, 2000
The
rules
... of dating Iranian women
By Siamack Baniameri
November 8, 2000
Happy
without you
Last thing on my mind is an Iranian husband
By Banafsheh Pirasteh
November 8, 2000
Curbing
men
Equal sharing of sexual morality
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
October 27, 2000
Blind
date
With an Iranian feminist
By Siamack Baniameri
October 17, 2000
Hal-e
moshkel-e hejaab
Solving the hejab problem
By Saeed Tavakkol
October 17, 2000
Khalvat-e
paaeezi
Boys' snide remarks have turned ugly
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
October 10, 2000
Meeting
Faezeh
The rise and fall of a talented woman
By Massoume Price
October 5, 2000
Personal/Universal
Shirin Neshat's art at UC Berkeley Museum
By By Maryam Ovissi
September 28, 2000
Soaal-e
bozorg
"Is she a virgin?"
By Mohandes
September 13, 2000
Paris
Tehran
The capital of swelling desire
By Soma
September 7, 2000
Love
at first click
Never took cyberlovers seriously. Now I do.
By Ashkan Mosadegh
September 1, 2000
Baptized
in tears
Googoosh concert or collective rozeh khooni?
By Setareh Sabety-Javid
August 29, 2000
Zan
gereftan
Shohar kardan
By dAyi Hamid
August 23, 2000
Second
class
The legal status of Iranian women
By Mehrangiz Kar
April 18, 2000
Why don't
women learn Karate?
Conversations with my son
By By Yasaman J.
March 16, 2000
Can't just fake
it
Violence reported by wives are more likely true
By Simin Haghighi
March 16, 2000
March 7, 2000
Right
to choose
First protests against mandatory hijab
Compiled by Pedram Missaghi
March 7, 2000
Women's
movement
A brief history 1850-2000
By Massoume Price
December 28, 1999
My
lemon yellow roosari
My hejab had to say something about me
By Dokhi Fassihian
Sept 29, 1999
Hamadan's
Brad Pitt
Iranians aboard have Brad Pitt; we have Haj Abbas
By Loren S.
Sept 23, 1999
Khodeti
Who are you calling "kharaab"?
By Saghie Zarinkalk
April 27, 1999
Real
Iranian girls?
Looking for a bride? Go to Iran.
By Cyrus L. Raafat
March 25, 1999
Not
their fault
Women generally - not inevitably - bow to socio-economic
pressures
By Laleh Khalili
March 2, 1999
To
live or to be alive?
That is the question for Iranian women
By Laleh Khalili
November 11, 1998
Zarry's
Wedding
Short story
By Massud Alemi
October 21, 1998
The
chosen one
His choice, not hers.
Memoirs of Taj al-Saltana
October 15, 1998
First snow
I quietly asked her what was going on outside. She gave me a long glance and said,
"nothing...it is... just snowing!"
xAle's Corner
October 9, 1998
Hot dog
What did you expect me to say, Ghormeh Sabzi?
By Yasaman J
September 16, 1998
The
little emigre
Who would I be today, without all those losses?
By Yasmine Rafii
August 26, 1998
Mommy's
boy
When I'm angry or feel harm coming my way, I think of her and feel safe
By Shahin
August 20, 1998
"...
why did you and baba leave?"
If it was so great...
By Yasaman J
August 12, 1998
Fire &
snow
We siphoned some gas from our car into a few bottles we had in the car and wrote
our names and created some designs on the snow and lit it. Wow!
xAle's Corner
August 10, 1998
Requiem
for a matriarch
She left her husband after nearly 10 years and four
children, a daring gesture back in Reza Shah's Iran
By Ramin Tabib
July 30, 1998
The
women we wanted to be
By Laleh Khalili
July 27, 1998
Shattering
truth
Murder? Unbearable domestic abuse? The case of Farinoush
Dalili
By Ramin Tabib
July 24, 1998
No sand
between my toes
I am a Mercedes-driving, cellphone-carrying, club-hopping,
lady :-)
By Golpar
July 23, 1998
Aziz
My grandmother's gift for storytelling
By Jasmin Darznik
July 10, 1998
Mulberries
We picked an old tree with many majestic bending
branches, heavy with deep red mulberries...
xAle's Corner
June 17, 1998
Sunflowers
Farm workers gathered around and commented about
my dress...
xAle's Corner
June 15, 1998
Loving
an Iranian man
By Laleh Khalili
June 1998
"The
road to Afghanistan"
The editorial in the April/May 1998 issue of Zanan
magazine in Iran
March 1998
From empress
to net surfer
Farah Pahlavi on the information superhighway
By Farhad Sepahbodi
January 1998
My
first girlfriend
By dAyi Hamid
December 1997
Khaaharaan
va dokhtaraan maa (Persian).
Excerpt from a 1944 book (Our Sisters and Daughters) by Ahmad Kasravi, a year
before he was assassinated by Islamic militants
October 1997
The
Bird & The Whale
She and he finally meet in a far-away land...
By J. Javid
October 1997
Oh sweet
rebellion
Watching (and admiring) girl rebel over techno music
By Ramin Tabib
October 1997
Gloria Steinem
could learn a thing or two
An intellectual (and intelligent) discussion in
Tehran on women's issues
August 1997
Vivid memories
Book review: "Snake's Marble : A Persian Memoire"
By Mahvash Shahegh
June 1997
Az
koori-ye cheshm-e falak (Persian)
Fond memories of Iran's great female singer, Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri
June 1997
My wife,
please?
Iran and Britain went to war over a Persian lady
By Barbara English
June 1997
Zir
derakht porteghaal (Persian)
The shah was human and she loved him
By Soraya Esfandiyari Bakhtiari
February 1997
Uncovered:
Girls poop.
You guys thought it wasn't possible, didn't you?
By Shadi Ziaie
December 1996
A new generation?
Discussing women's issues in Iran in the 1990s
December 1996
Letter
from America
A 13-year old Iranian-American girl talks about her life, hobbies, interests
By Sheila Mostafavi
By Janet Afary
December 1996
Scent
of a brick
My mother's, bless her heart, garden in Tehran
By Haeedeh Fattaey
September 1996
Zoroastrian
Divorce
From ancient to contemporary times
Encyclopaedia Iranica
September 1996
Are you listening to me?! (Persian
Text)(English
Text)
Why haven't we learned to listen to others?
By Neda Bojnourdi
July 1996
Panbeh
She wanted a dog. I got her a dog
By J. Javid
July 1996
Elitist
attitudes, grassroot problems
Where the Muslim women's conference in Washington failed
By Sussan Tahmasebi
July 1996
In
Search of...
Looking for that perfect companion?
May 1996
Helping the
Helpless
Maryam Namazi at CHAIR focuses on rescuing refugees
By J. Javid
May 1996
Iranian Under
the Veil
From "The Country of Flowers and Nightingales"
By Robert D. Kaplan
May 1996
Cheraa
film-e Iraani misaazand? (Persian)
Commentator laments cheap nudity in Iranian films
May 1996
Kotak-kaari
dokhtaraan baraa-ye Vigen (Persian)
School girls go crazy for young Vigen.
March 1996
From
Moscovic to Marilyn Monroe (Persian)
Silly and serious Iranian newspaper ads in the 1950's
March 1996
Dokhtar
khanom! Movazeb bashid!(Persian)
Iranian female courtship rules circa 1954. Outrageous!
November
Dancing for Dad
Surprising interests and activities of a girl in
Iran
By J. Javid
Send us your art work, articles or books to be featured in this section
Contact us at Times@iranian.com
|
