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The mirage of modern Iran in the 60s and 70s: "Khomeini brought hell, before we had the Shah's dictatorship"

During the 60s and 70s, Iran experienced a cultural effervescence and women's voting rights despite the authoritarian regime and censorship of Reza Pahlavi: the New Wave of cinema, existentialism in ...
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Before the Veil: How Iranian Women Once Lived with Freedom—and What the Revolution Took Away

Before 1979, Iranian women wore miniskirts, earned advanced degrees, ran businesses, and lived lives that looked remarkably like their Western peers. Then came the Islamic Revolution—and everything ...