Conversation

Their many years of experience living in Afghanistan made Kiana Hayeri and Melissa Cornet indisputable recipients of the 14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award. They talk to Ailsa McWhinnie about the women whose voices won’t be silenced

THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC’S AL-ready lengthy catalog of fears has ballooned of late: alongside the possibility of being overthrown by its own citizens, it is haunted by the prospect of a full accounting of

Rebecca Ferguson wears Fforme for this month’s cover ...

Exaggerating her beetling monobrow and wispy dark moustache in self-portraits, the artist Frida Kahlo was a female force to be reckoned with, unafraid to pour her heart onto the canvas. Only last autu

In January 1979, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fled Iran with “his wife, some jewels and a clod of earth”, says author Christopher de Bellaigue in the Financial Times. A measure of how the country’s Isla

TODAY, THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF Iran resembles a half-lifeless body collapsed on the ground, but holding a gun. With the support of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and other military forces, it