Although anti-government protests in Iran have entered a lull following the authorities’ harsh crackdown and a major ...

Holding 40th-day memorials for killed demonstrators, people across Iran mix mourning and music as a form of protest ...

1. Introduction -- 2. The invention of an ideal female national dancer in twentieth-century Iran -- 3. Mutribs and their dancers: the counter-ideal performers of new Iran -- 4. The cabaret dancer in ...