Bravery comes in many forms. In Tehran, a woman named Vida Movahed stood on a box in the street, her hair uncovered, holding ...

BOOM found that the video shows women part of the international radical feminist group FEMEN, protesting against incidents of ...

Protesters marking the international day for the elimination of violence against women were choked, pepper-sprayed and ...

Syrian armed groups launched a large-scale attack on areas controlled by government forces and seized territory in ...

Iraqi lawmakers’ proposal to amend the country’s family law and grant religious courts the authority to legalize marriages for underage girls is being pushed by the country’s Shiite parliamentary ...

The latest drama by Mohammad Rasoulof won the embattled filmmaker a prize at Cannes, though not before he had to flee his ...

Mohammad Rasoulof's provocative film has been banned in Iran, but Germany has submitted it for Oscar consideration ...

A family implodes against a backdrop of paranoia and protest in this deeply upsetting masterwork from the Iranian filmmaker, ...

Authoritarian regimes rely on patriarchal structures to consolidate their power. In Iran, this partnership serves to control ...

The Village Voice review's Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof's rebellious new film, "The Seed of the Sacred Fig." ...

Their mother warns, “You must be irreproachable.” With “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Rasoulof has composed an epic of ...

Dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof talks about how he escaped Iran on foot after making his new political thriller, The ...