Iran by Hoda Rostami ...
1. Hidden City Tehran is a big crowded city with a selection of distinctive individuals, with even more distinctive lives and exceptional behaviors. After many years when I returned to the city, where I was born and raised, everything had a different look from the time I had left it. Iran is an Islamic state run by Islamic law. Islamic dress code require all women to wear Veil or “Hijab”. Basically, Women have to cover their body and do not have a right to ride motorbikes nor can dance in public. They are not allowed to have a relationship with a man before marriage and kissing is banned by social norms in public. Women’s voice can only get permission for album release only if its in accordance with a male singer. Here is a forbidden city. By living there again, I eventually discovered another city. A hidden one, breathing with a feminine beauty under the skin of the forbidden. Unlike traditional women, they put make ups, leave their hair revealed under scarves and loo