NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said women's issues are "one of the most sensitive issues and one of the ...

A growing number of women in Iran are choosing to appear in public without headscarves, signaling what many observers see as a bold act of resistance against strict Islamic dress codes.During a recent ...

Covering the neck and head and dressing modestly became mandatory for women in Iran following the Islamic revolution that ... for allegedly violating the dress code. The months-long unrest ...

A Q&A with Theology Associate Professor of the Practice Natana DeLong-Bas, past president of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies Protests have rocked Iran since the September ...

which signifies the abandonment of “Islamic values” to them. Women and men in Iran are bound by a law passed shortly after the country’s 1979 revolution to adhere to strict dress codes ...