Iran’s Women Haven’t Been This Angry in a Generation By Azadeh Moaveni TEHRAN — On Monday, the 18th day of Iran’s intense protests against oppressive clerical rule and its numerous failures, schoolgirls with backpacks and black Converse sneakers joined the revolt. They marched down a street in a suburb of Tehran, the capital, waving their school uniform veils in the…
About the New York Times Food Festival The New York Times announced that it will be launching an ambitious new food festival, to be held on October 5 and 6 in New York City. Featuring The Times’s top food editor Sam Sifton, along with colleagues Melissa Clark, Kim Severson and others, The New York Times Food Festival will, therefore, bring…
A wave of hope swept through Saudi Arabia when the government there announced in early August that it would soon extend significant new rights to women. The changes, which started applying at the end of August, were anticipated to dramatically change the conservative kingdom’s so-called guardianship system, allowing women to get passports, travel, work, keep custody of minors and register births and divorces without…
