Iranian Revolution Turned Against Women Who Supported ItTayana Marshll
Shirin Ibadi was the first woman in the history of Iranian justice to serve as a judge. After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, she and other female judges were dismissed from their posts and given clerical duties where she was made a clerk in the very court where she once presided.When th...
English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid...
Abolhassan Banisadr, 88. Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy. Oct. 9. Abdul Qadeer Khan, 85. A controversial figure known as the father of ...
Thousands of American troops joined forces in September 1918 with the allied intervention force at Archangel in response to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. American soldiers engaged in several major battles that year as part of World War I, including theMeuse-Argonne Offensivefrom Sept. 26...
graphic novels let Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi tell the story of her childhood in the Iranian revolution inPersepolis, Alison Bechdel depict her relationship with her closeted father inFun Home, and Esther Pearl Watson’s compile her “Unlovable” strips, based on a teen’s 1980s diary she...
It is surely possible for democracy and meritocracy to be successfully blended. Such a system would require that political leaders continue to be elected by the people, but that only suitably qualified candidates with the necessary expertise and experience to lead would be permitted to stand for el...
“For a long time, the Iranian government has put a spoke in the wheel of independent filmmakers,” he said at a 2010 news conference. Director Martin Scorsese said some people referred to Kiarostami’s pictures as minimalist, but he thought it was the opposite; every scene in “Taste of ...
“For a long time, the Iranian government has put a spoke in the wheel of independent filmmakers,” he said at a 2010 news conference. Director Martin Scorsese said some people referred to Kiarostami’s pictures as minimalist, but he thought it was the opposite; every scene in “Taste of ...
Nasrallah later expressed regret — an unprecedented move for him — and said during a televised interview that Hezbollah had not expected “even one percent” that the capture of the Israeli soldiers “would lead to a war of this magnitude.” “You ask me, if I had known ... that the ...