Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance. In Neshat’s untitled photograph (from the Rapture series, 1999) in the Asia Society exhibition, we see dozens of Iranian women covered head to ...

Rastgar’s art blends Iranian iconography and Persian ... between a white-colored monster and a female warrior with the words “women, life, freedom” embroiled in her flowy hair.

These Iranian female “warrior ninjas” are training ... lethal weapons and practicing the martial art of Ninjutsu. Headscarf-wearing women can be seen in a raft of gravity-defying poses as ...

As a graduate student studying Iranian art, Jeannine Davis-Kimball knew ... career would eventually be focused on the enigmatic warrior women who once wandered the Eurasian steppes some 2,000 ...

Two contrasting works boldly set the stage for the Middle East Institute Art ... warrior battles a dragon in the corner. Although gender isn’t an overt theme, more than half the artists are ...

For centuries, skilled Iranian storytellers known as Naqqals have transfixed audiences in traditional coffeehouses with stories from the 50,000-verse Shahnameh, but historically it was an art ...

DNA tests on the 2,000-year-old bones of a sword-wielding Iranian warrior have revealed the broad-framed skeleton belonged to a woman, according to an archeologist working in the northwestern city ...

DNA tests on the 2,000-year-old bones of a sword-wielding Iranian warrior have revealed the broad-framed skeleton belonged to a woman, an archaeologist working in the northwestern city of Tabriz ...