Making history as Iran’s first-ever Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, a breathtaking new film chronicles the extraordinary life of a lone female leader fighting for change in a patriarchal r ...

Noor Pahlavi’s heart breaks as she watches her people suffer in Iran – a land in which she never stepped foot, yet remains forever in her blood.

Faraz Shariat's 'Prosecution,' about a prosecutor confronting far-right violence, and Alisa Kovalenko's documentary 'Traces' about sexual violence against Ukrainian women during the war, took top ...

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a ...

In a room of 1,500 men, Sara Shahverdi becomes the only female leader in her region of Iran - a new film joins her as she ...

At hospitals, at seminaries and on buses, the Taliban is stepping up enforcement of rules on women's dress in the city of ...

Tara Grammy — a Tehran-born, Los Angeles-based playwright and actress — has become one of the most prominent advocates for Iranians trapped in their country.

Bay Area natives are sharing their family's story of fleeing the current Iranian regime and reclaiming self-expression.