endilletante:

De la Perse à l’Iran, photographies de Inge Morath, textes de Edouard Sablier. Editions Delpire.

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Your Veil is a Battleground - Phase Two is a continuation of my project inspired by Barbara Kruger’s controversial work, “Your body is a battle ground”. Phase Two explores the different ways young Iranian women choose to wear the veil. Hijab is implemented as a fashion element, accompanied with distinctive make-up and colorful headscarves. Young women use these elements to empower themselves and to make a statement. One might argue that the make-up itself, is also a form of veil.

- Kiana Hayeri

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mohandasgandhi:

In this picture taken on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, an Iranian Jewish man, prays at the tomb of biblical prophet Daniel, in the city of Susa, some 450 miles ( 750 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. All but lost amid the heated talk about a possible Israeli attack on Iran’s suspect nuclear program are the thousands of Jews who live in the Islamic Republic and could be caught in the middle.

Aside from Israel, Iran is home to the largest population of Jews in the Middle East, with over 25,000 Jews residing in the country.

farsizaban:

The Iranian National Football Team, 1978 World Cup

fotojournalismus:

At the “Hidden Paradise” cafe, in Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city, a student relaxes in the afternoon while smoking a water pipe. Mashhad, Iran. October 2004.

[Credit : Alexandra Boulat]

60ansdevadrouille:

Ispahan - Mosquée du Roi, iwan E et accès à medersa Est. 1968.

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My mother is the best cook in the world. 

Iranian food is the best food in the world. 

farsizaban:

Students of a Religious School in Iran Playing Volleyball

badesaba:

A Tehran Art University student looks at a painting by 20th century U.S. artist Jackson Pollock at Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art on June 19, 2010.

Artists like Monet, Picasso and Warhol’s works not much appreciated by the leaders of Iran’s Islamic revolution were kept out of view for decades. Now, one of the greatest collections of contemporary Western art — put together under a Western-leaning monarchy in pre-revolutionary Iran — is open to the public, with some works on display for the first time in more than 30 years.

Morteza Nikoubazl / Reuters 

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obliquecity:

A ballot from Iran’s Parliamentary election on March 2nd, 2012 that reads: “Death to this rotten regime that forces me to vote for a stamp in my ID card!”

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