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English. Persian. Budget. $13.2 million [1] Box office. $43 million. Not Without My Daughter is a 1991 American drama film based on the book of the same name, depicting the escape of American citizen Betty Mahmoody and her daughter from her abusive ex-husband in Iran. In 1990, the film was shot in the United States, Turkey and Israel, and the ...
e. During the late 20th and early 21st centuries in Iran, women's rights have been severely restricted, compared with those in most developed nations. The World Economic Forum 's 2017 Global Gender Gap Report ranked Iran 140, out of 144 countries, for gender parity. In 2017, in Iran, females comprised just 19% of the paid workforce, with seven ...
Iran ranked 10th in terms of female literacy in the 1970s, and still holds this position. [72] According to a UNESCO world survey, at the primary level of enrollment, Iran has the highest female-to-male ratio in the world among sovereign nations, with a girl-to-boy ratio of 1.22: 1.00. [73]
Videos of protests in Iran show women — most of them young — waving their hijabs in the air, some of them throwing their head scarves into bonfires; others defiantly leave their hair uncovered ...
Mahnaz Mohammadi (Persian: مهناز محمدی; born 1 January 1975, Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker and women's rights activist. She wrote and directed her first film in 2003, "Women Without Shadows" , depicting the lives of homeless and abandoned women in a state-run shelter, has been shown and awarded in several international film festivals.
Videos on social media show women and girls walking with their hair uncovered, even as the UN warned of "expanded repressive measures" by Iran’s government. Women in Iran "still live in a system ...
The Iranian Women's Rights Movement (Persian: جنبش زنان ایران), is the social movement for women's rights of the women in Iran. The movement first emerged after the Iranian Constitutional Revolution in 1910, the year in which the first women's periodical was published by women. The movement lasted until 1933 when the last women's ...
ISBN. 9780375504907. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books is a book by Iranian author and professor Azar Nafisi. Published in 2003, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for over one hundred weeks and has been translated into 32 languages. [1][2]