Shirin Neshat

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A Garden of Eden without Adam

Arts, Culture & Media

Shirin Neshat creates visually stunning short films and art. The Iranian-born artist may be best known for her photographic series “Women of Allah” (1993-97) which depicts women wearing the chador, some carrying guns, their faces and hands covered with finely written Persian script. Her first feature-length film, “Women Without Men” (2009), has traveled across the […]

Women walk past buildings as the sun sets in Doha October 19, 2010.

Qatar’s treatment of its migrant workers goes under the microscope

Global Scan

An Iranian photographer captures the toll Egypt’s revolution has taken on the poor

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