How did women contribute to the rise of the Mongol Empire while Mongol men were conquering Eurasia? This book positions women in their rightful place in the otherwise well-known story of Chinggis Khan ...

An Iranian woman stripped down to her underwear in protest over hijab laws before allegedly being attacked by police as she was arrested and 'taken to a mental hospital'. The young unidentified ...

It is five years since Iranian Masih Alinejad started a movement - since joined by thousands of women - protesting against the compulsory wearing of the hijab, or headscarf, in her country.

As you enter “An Epic of Kings” at the National Museum of Asian Art, a recording of a woman ... the Great Mongol Shahnama served both to commemorate a legendary Persian past and to boost ...

Before Mongol rule, Greater Iran was ruled by various Turkic dynasts for almost two centuries. These Turkish rulers adopted local practices and ruling customs in order to curry favor with their ...

The incident comes after Iranian police announced a clampdown on women defying the nation's compulsory dress code. The fresh measures included using CCTV to identify female drivers failing to ...

Growing numbers of Iranian women have defied authorities by discarding their veils after nationwide protests that followed the death in September 2022 of a young Iranian Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini.

Several Iranian women have caught people's attention by revealing the lengths they go to to attend a football match. Donning beards and wigs, they disguised themselves as men so they could watch ...

A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code. A video ...

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Obtained by CNN The woman had previously been harassed by members of the Basij, an Iranian volunteer paramilitary group, inside the university’s grounds, according to an Iranian student social media ...