The advancing camera discloses that the black mass consists of women in chadors, bobbing in unruly rhythms. |
This newsletter will take you to Iran, in its vivid tastes and colors, far from the black of chadors. |
As the crowd wrangles and shoves, the woman forces her unheeding way through the faces and chadors and disappears off the bottom of the screen. |
Students and teachers in all-female schools have been attending classes since the late-September start of the academic year without headscarves and chadors. |
Students dressed in everything from chadors to blue jeans and t-shirts have attended and taken an interest. |
They paint the oil-on-canvas billboards women in chadors, Iranian soldiers at the war front, portraits of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that are then plastered along Tehran's highways, main squares and boulevards. |