Independent aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Before last week, Maedeh Hozhabri was one of the many unnamed young Iranian girls taping their dance moves in the privacy of their homes - because dance clubs or outdoors dancing is forbidden in Iran - and sharing ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Iran's radical militia (Basij) recently disrupted and canceled a religious performance by deaf women in Tehran's Quran Expo because the sign language resembled dancing, which is forbidden in Iran for ...
Exactly 100 years ago, thanks to the women's suffrage movement and courage of outspoken progressive women such as Emily Davison, women in the UK won the right to vote. A few other countries preceded England, as seen in the map below: New Zealand (1893), Australia (conditional, ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/events, Kodoom.com: Golshifteh Farahani, the exiled reformist feminist Iranian actress has been on the center stage of this year's Cannes festival. She showed up with her husband Christos Dorje Walker, the Australian psychotherapist and ...
Although ignored by many in the mass media, perhaps out of embarrassment, Comedian Michelle Wolf's unabashed remarks at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner brutally targeted the entire US establishment, mass media, Democrats, Republicans and the Trump Administration ...
More than 5 million women today launched the first nationwide women’s strike in Spain’s history to mark International Women’s Day. Chanting, banging pots and pans, and refusing to work for 24 hours, women of Spain demanded respect and attention: "If we stop, the world stops." ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Earlier this week, a female Chinese musician performing in Iran's Fajr International Music Festival in Tehran was suddenly approached by security officials and covered with a black cloth because her scarf had slipped ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Nezhat Amiri, Iran's first and only musical conductor led the majority-male Naghmeh Baran National Orchestra in a performance at the Fajr Music Festival currently held in Tehran. Ali Amir Ghasemi was the male vocalist ...
Recently the following video of two young girls, self-taken minutes before Jumping from a bridge in Isfahan went viral on Iranian media. The 15-year-old died and the 16 year old survived the fall and remains in critical condition. The girls talk about their need for love in the ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: The Indie Wire's list of 25 Best Female Movie Performances of the 21st Century, published in 2017, included a diverse group of actresses, from Oscar winners to the frightfully snubbed, comedic high-wire acts to the ...