(WOMENSENEWS)–Shahla Sherkat, the award-winning journalist and one of the pioneers of the women’s rights movement in Iran, is re-launching on May 29 her feminist magazine shut down by hardliners in ...

Every so often, at Broadsheet and elsewhere, we get into a bit of a debate over women’s magazines and the contribution, positive or otherwise, they make to the social order. As you have likely heard, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. More bad news for press freedom in Iran. On Tuesday word emerged that ...

Shahla Sherkat , prominent journalist who launched the monthly title Zanan-e Emruz in May, has been called to appear before Iran’s press court. RFE/RL reports Iranian hardliners have accused the ...

In January, during a meeting in Berlin with a group of Middle Eastern women, I was handed an e-mail message. It reported that Iran’s Press Supervisory Board had shut down the monthly women’s magazine ...

This blog has previously featured writing from and about women in Iran, in particular the inspiring One Million Signatures campaign. It is therefore with sadness that we received the following news ...

The last issue of "Zanan" ahead of its late-January shutdown (official site) Iranian authorities' decision to shut down an influential women's magazine for "damaging society" and painting a gloomy ...

Iran has just closed Zanan, an influential women’s magazine that covered international politics, prisons, Islamic law; never chocolate cake. Maura Casey says the closure could be temporary; if not, it ...

Women's magazines notoriously come and go, operating in a volatile publishing market and sinking if they don't get the celeb/fashion/lifestyle mix right. Things are a little different in Iran. It ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Subhead: It's re-launching May 29 in Iran. After being shut down by hardliners in 2008 the revival ...