Iranian women are using the hashtag #tajavoz to call out sexual violence.
Iranian photographer Jalal Sepehr poses a Persian carpet dilemma.
Lydia Noon reports on an escalating crisis.
This month's guest cartoonist is Payam Boromand from Iran.
Hazel Healy reports on an innovation that could help women in Iran.
Human Rights Watch has thrown its weight behind a challenge to Iran’s ban on women watching volleyball matches. Kelsi Farrington reports.
Exiled Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad is using social media to challenge Iran’s compulsory hijab law. Lucinda Homa Gray meets her.
The Iranian women's rights activist on what she has been doing since she was featured in our March 2007 issue.
Feature films can tell us much about the cultural background to recent events in North Africa and the Middle East. Malcolm Lewis has been watching some of them.
Beware Americans talking ‘stability’, warns Noam Chomsky.
Interview with Parvin Ardalan who is at the heart of the struggle for women's rights in Iran.
A gay Iraqi, a Jewish Iranian and a Saudi feminist tell their stories