Category: Women

In the year of 2008, I had the opportunity to attend several meetings with women and men within my community.  In one specific female only group, I had the chance to discuss topics that women appreciated greatly.  In three different sessions extended over couple of months, I managed to listen to these women’s concerns while…

Marriage is a concept that for many of us Iranian is loose. We may be able to tie the issue to a desire for an independent life. We may think that by becoming our own man and woman, our parents will believe we are adults.  No, for many of our Iranian families this is not…

For creating a Family we need to have a set of principals. We live in a world where we receive manuals for every single item we purchase, yet, once we are building families, we have no manual to follow. Obviously there are huge number of literature and accumulated work out there; however, in our Iranian…

What is Domestic Violence and How does a typical Iranian Marriage look like? There is no typical marriage, however, this is a format that can more and less be found in many new couple’s life. What goes on in an abusive relationship? How does a marriage turn into a prison for a woman or a…

I met many lion women today. We use this phrase in our daily life: you are such a “shir zan” or lion woman ! We honor brave, outspoken, hardworking, and resilient women with this name. I guess we do not have any name for brave men because we assume men are brave anyways. In this…