Iranian lawmakers have pushed through changes to the dowry law, further weakening women's rights and aggravating gender ...

UN experts and 400 prominent women have urged Iran not to execute Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old electrical engineer and women's rights activist. Ms Tabari was arrested in April and accused of ...

Last year the encroaching war in Iraq, a country that shares a long and conflict-ridden border with Iran, discouraged many Americans and other foreigners from visiting the Fajr Film Festival. With the ...

Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz doesn’t know how to start a movie. The first time we see Leila, her alter ego in the autobiographical, warm-hearted, personal, funny but also somewhat ...

Shakespeare & Company will stage the world premiere of Awni Abdi-Bahri's Three Tall Persian Women, directed by Dalia Ashurina, at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre from August 30 through October 13.

The Persian Version (2023)’s plot synopsis: “Coming from two countries at odds with each other, Iranian-American Leila (Layla Mohammadi) strives to find balance and embrace her opposing cultures, ...

LENOX — Shakespeare & Company is transitioning from its summer schedule to fall with a world premiere — “Three Tall Persian Women” by Awni Abdi-Bahri. Set in the present in the Southern California ...

An Iranian woman experienced a medical emergency while being detained by masked immigration agents outside her Los Angeles home. During the operation on June 24, the woman appeared to suffer a severe ...

When she first started learning to ride a motorbike, Iranian Maryam Ghelich, now an instructor, would drive through Tehran’s ...

Yellow, orange and red have entered the local landscape signaling the end to summer and another robust theatrical season in the Berkshires. Shakespeare & Company’s final offering of the season is a ...