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The Headscarf Controversy

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  • Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi
    Death sentence for Rapper Toomaj

    Tehran's legitimacy crisis

    The rapper Toomaj Salehi has been sentenced to death in Iran. His case shows how the regime is fighting to maintain its power, and against whom

  • Iran's authoritarian dress code

    Tehran seeks to enforce hijab rules again

    The hijab is not just a piece of clothing. This traditional headscarf holds deep cultural and political significance in Iran. The Islamist regime demands that women wear it for the sake of morality and order. Nonetheless, a considerable number of women have stopped doing so entirely. By Shora Azarnoush

  • LGBTQ+ rights in Turkey

    Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric intensifies

    During this year's election campaigns, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vilified the LGBTQ+ community in an attempt to strengthen his support among conservative voters and drive a wedge between the parties of the opposition alliance. Now the government wants to introduce constitutional amendments that rights groups fear would further marginalise LGBTQ+ people. By Ayşe Karabat

  • Berlin is the last federal state to approve the wearing of headscarves by teachers. The fact that the courts have had to demand this time and again does not however reflect well on German politics.
    The headscarf controversy

    End of Germany's culture war?

    Berlin is the last federal state in Germany to approve the wearing of headscarves by teachers. The fact that the courts have had to demand this time and again does not however reflect well on German politics. By Daniel Bax

  • Challenging one of the Islamic Republic's most identifiable symbols – the hijab – with some breathtaking, iconographic feminist art, Iran's activists have wrested ownership away from the clerics with regard to who represents the nation, defines its present and shapes its future.
    Iran protests

    What the Islamic Republic's propaganda tells us

    Challenging one of the Islamic Republic's most identifiable symbols – the hijab – with some breathtaking, iconographic feminist art, Iran's activists have wrested ownership away from the clerics with regard to who represents the nation, defines its present and shapes its future. Essay by Kevin L. Schwartz & Olmo Goelz

  • Archive image: Angry demonstrators gathered in front of the two sanctuaries in Qom and tried to break through the gates leading to the shrines during the coronavirus pandemic.
    Protests in Iran

    Islamic Republic facing a religious watershed

    Iranians do not want an Islam that interferes. They are fed up with a system that manipulates people with simple promises of salvation and anti-Western propaganda. Islamic theologian Hamideh Mohagheghi sees Iran at a religious crossroads

  • From a standing start, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP won an absolute majority on 3 November 2002, taking 363 out of 550 seats. The AKP has won all parliamentary elections in Turkey ever since.
    Turkey

    20 years of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP

    On 3 November 2002, Erdogan's newly founded AKP, Justice and Development Party, came to power in Turkey. It has ruled the country ever since, becoming more authoritarian with each victory. By Elmas Topcu

  • "Name and shame": The world’s democracies would do well to follow Canada’s lead and apply targeted sanctions against politicians of the Islamic Republic.
    Iranian lawyer appeals for solidarity

    "Iranian women need the world's help"

    Mahsa Amini’s crime, which led to her death at the hands of Iran’s morality police, was wearing the hijab incorrectly. A legal expert from inside Iran, who prefers to remain anonymous, explains the political dimensions of this special piece of cloth to Ehsan Hosseinzadeh

  • In their struggle for self-determination, Iranian women and men are displaying a level of courage and cohesion we haven’t seen before. For that reason, what we are seeing now is feminist. And feminist foreign policy would mean supporting Iranians in this feminist aim to achieve self-determination in their lives.
    How feminist are the protests in Iran?

    The struggle for self-determination

    In their struggle for self-determination, Iranians are displaying a level of courage and cohesion we have not seen before. And this is why the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s violent death are feminist, writes Katajun Amirpur

  • Few political symbols are more divisive in Turkey than the headscarf. For decades, the Turkish raison d'etat regarded the headscarf as a threat to modern, secular Turkey. For the country's founder Ataturk, the headscarf was the epitome of Islam at its most reactionary.
    Turkey's headscarf debate

    The politics of hijab

    In Turkey, the secular opposition is seeking to enshrine the right of women to wear a headscarf in law – scoring an own goal that plays straight into President Erdogan’s hands. Yet again, men are arguing about women's clothing. By Burak Unveren

  • Mahsa Amini’s death

    Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar: "I am really livid "

    Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar has lived in Germany since 1991. Full of rage, just like the protesters, she hasn't yet given up on the idea of justice. By Julia Hitz

  • Golineh Atai’s "Freiheit ist weiblich" is a personal and haunting book that provides a rare insight into Iranian society and the defiance of its women.
    Golineh Atai's unsung heroines

    In Iran, freedom is female

    In "Iran. Die Freiheit ist weiblich", journalist Golineh Atai describes the dogged resistance of courageous Iranian women against the Islamic Republic and the mullahs who have ruled Iran for more than 40 years. Claudia Mende read the book for Qantara.de

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