Some writers describe the world as it is. Shahrnush Parsipur spent her life imagining how it might be different.

The massive protests in Iran, fueled by the audacity of young women and children, are rooted in over a century of struggle.

Shahrnush Parsipur, the Iranian author of 'Women Without Men', leaves behind a fearless literary legacy shaped by censorship, exile, imprisonment, feminism and women’s struggle for freedom.

Marjane Satrapi will be remembered for her eye-opening film Persepolis which transformed not only Westerners but also exiled Iranians’ understanding of Iran in a simple yet powerful way.

Government supporters are showing off new ties with alleged former dissidents in a bid to show that they can withstand enemies at home as well as abroad.

An editor at a Tehran publishing house, an online yoga instructor, and a rural mother who sells homemade food via Instagram are just three of many Iranian women whose livelihoods have been ruined by ...