I’ve been following Deconstructing Hairy for a while now since it was recommended by a good friend of mine. According to the author’s profile it is written by ‘an Iranian finally living in Iran’ and follows her adventures ‘on being and becoming an Iranian woman’. Recently there has been one particular post that really intrigued [...]

Another day another crackdown! This time the Iranian police are exercising a ‘winter raid against the boot’. Young trendy Iranians are being targeted for strutting around town in boots worn over their trousers and warm wooly hats instead of their compulsory hejab. How crazy is that?? Here in ’sunny’ Sheffield I probably see about a [...]

Iran as a Nation of Nose-jobs is another one of those repetitive cliches that, putting it politely, really gets on my nerves. Since beginning my research into Iranian blogging I have collected a mass of editorials that, like Hitchens, although seemingly attempt to depict ‘Iran’s Other Face‘ or ‘Lift the Veil‘ do little more than [...]

Tehran has held an exhibition this week in order to promote Islamic fashion and female modesty with the aim to counter the influence of western dress amongst Iranian teens. Tehran’s Imam Khomeini mosque hosted the country’s first Islamic dress fair, in which ankle-length manteaus, or overcoats, and all-covering black chadors supplanted the sexually daring styles [...]