While wrapped in cumbersome chadors and burq'as, women exercise more rights here than in the ultra-conservative states on the other side of the Persian Gulf. |
Girls in pretty dresses and women in black chadors waved to the revolutionaries from the rooftops, egging them on to Colonel Qaddafi's compound. |
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. |
Students and teachers in all-female schools have been attending classes since the late-September start of the academic year without headscarves and chadors. |
This newsletter will take you to Iran, in its vivid tastes and colors, far from the black of chadors. |