My Terrorists Face Judgment Day
For most people, the commanders Israel has just eliminated will be foreign names. For me and for the people of Iran they are the monsters who have terrorized our families. I’ve...
Opinion – Here’s what it’s like to be persecuted for your hair
By Alyssa Rosenberg and Masih Alinejad Since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of Iran’s “morality police” in September, Iranians around the world —...
The Beginning of the End of the Islamic Republic
Iranians Have Had Enough of Theocracy By Masih Alinejad The current protests in Iran sound the death knell of the Islamic Republic. The killing in police custody of Mahsa...
I left Iran to have my daughter, but the protests give me confidence that change is coming
Women are in the streets without scarves and standing up to the security forces. There is something new in the air It is 2am on 21 September. The widespread protests in Iran are...
The Exiled Dissident Fuelling the Hijab Protests in Iran
Since 2014, Masih Alinejad has published videos of Iranian women removing their head scarves. When a twenty-two-year-old died last week in the morality police’s custody, the...
Dissident: ‘Iranian women are furious’ over headscarf death
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The tears come quickly to Masih Alinejad when she talks about the messages she’s received in recent days from women in Iran protesting...
Battleground of Emotions: propagation of Outrage after Sepideh Rashno’s Forced Confession
Viewers in Iran three weeks ago were treated to spectacle worthy of George Orwell’s 1984. On three separate nights, four women were brought on the main channel of the State-owned...
Opinion- Life in a safe house: Why I sympathize with Salman Rushdie
By Masih Alinejad Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author and women’s rights campaigner. A member of the Human Rights Foundation’s International Council, she hosts...
Opinion – My video criticizing the Iranian government went viral. Then Instagram restricted my account
Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, author and women’s rights campaigner. She hosts “Tablet,” a talk show on Voice of America’s Persian service. On July 17, Instagram...
Masih Alinejad: «La mia voce e il mio volto per i diritti delle donne in Iran»
La giornalista e attivista iraniana Masih Alinejad è protagonista del documentario Be my voice. Abbiamo incontrato lei, ricercata dal governo iraniana e sotto protezione, e la...
Caught in Identity Politics, I Will not be Silenced
I am a woman of color. A woman from the Middle East, from Iran. I immigrated to the United States to be free. I know writing these words will make me politically incorrect in...
#LetUsTalk: The frustration of women without veil
By INNA SHEVCHENKOCharlie Hebdo This is the #MeToo of clothing harassment. Voices of Middle Eastern women living in the West—or not—who had to wear hijab—or still do—are rising...
Afghan women asked us to relay their voice for help
With the abrupt decision by Biden to withdraw from Afghanistan, people of this country are shocked and heart-broken. After 20 years, Taliban is back and contrary to their claims...
After eight years as Iran’s president, what is Rouhani’s record on women’s rights?
In 2013, millions of Iranians voted for Hassan Rouhani as president, after eight years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During the campaign, supporters of Rouhani advocated for what they...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s unjust detention is just the tip of the iceberg for the treatment of women in Iran
The world must not turn a blind eye to the treatment of women in Iran who are oppressed, incarcerated and lacking basic human rights too In recent years, a women’s rights movement...
Iranian women are staging an offensive against sexual abuse. It’s long overdue
Opinion by Masih Alinejad and Roya Hakakian Masih Alinejad is the founder of the #WhiteWednesdays campaign in Iran. Roya Hakakian is the author of “Journey from the Land of No: A...
Iranian women defy threat of decade-long jail sentence by taking photos of themselves without headscarves
‘Women in these videos are braver and angrier than before,’ says Masih Alinejad Iranian women are sharing videos of themselves removing their headscarves in public...
Women protesting forced Hijab (1979)
On 8 March 1979, more than 100,000 women gathered on the streets of the Iranian capital to protest against the new Islamic government’s compulsory hijab ruling, which meant that...
There are two types of hijabs. The difference is huge.
By Masih Alinejad and Roya Hakakian April 7 Masih Alinejad is the author of “The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran” and the founder of the #WhiteWednesdays...
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards are terrorists — I’ve seen evidence with my own eyes
As an Iranian woman in exile, I worry about my safety every single day Masih Alinejad Tuesday 9 April 2019 My childhood was spent learning about the exploits of “Shahid Bakeri” and...
The Flame of Feminism Is Alive in Iran
While Western activists defend the right of Muslims to wear the veil, Iranian women are fighting for a bigger cause: choice. The revolution that swept through Iran 40 years ago...
The Mullahs’ Biggest Fear: Iranian Women
By Masih Alinejad With the U.S. pullout from the nuclear deal, Iran will soon face renewed economic sanctions, compounding a crisis that has seen its currency go into...
Iran’s Basij promised to butcher me for fighting compulsory hijab
By Masih Alinejad Masih Alinejad is a journalist and the founder of My Stealthy Freedom, a campaign to oppose laws requiring head scarves in Iran. She is the author of...
I had to flee Iran’s repression. Trump’s order may keep me from my only child.
By Masih Alinejad Masih Alinejad is a journalist and the founder of My Stealthy Freedom, a campaign to oppose compulsory head scarves in Iran. She can be found on Twitter:...
Mr. Zarif’s disconnect on human rights
By Masih Alinejad Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist living in New York and creator of the My Stealthy Freedom campaign on Facebook. During an interview last month with...
Iranian State Television Faked My Rape
Women, dressed in traditional Islamic hijab, walk past the former home of the late Ayatollah Khomeini on June 3, 2014 in Qom, Iran. John Moore—Getty Images...