These women are popular, and the films they play are successful because they play the roles of women who challenge the status quo, who overcome the barriers of tradition, patriarchy, and misogyny characteristic of all the biblical religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism! That Iran has a cinema industry, made successful by talking about women issues, and profitable because of beautiful and strong women who create an identity for the mothers and daughters of Iran's future, is highly remarkable!
Leila Hatami
Mahnaz Afshaar
Baran Kosari
Tarane Alidoosti
Merila Zare'i
Pegah Ahangarani
Hedyeh Tehrani
Mitra Hadjar
Roya NoNahali
Golshifteh Farahani
Niki Karimi
20 comments:
Oh yeah baby!
I find Iranian women to be most beautiful.
Nice photos and this is something we don't consider here.
Thank you for once again showing us a side of Iranian life that the Corporate media never shows. And to think the Neocons want to rain bombs down on these lovely women!
Hallo Naj,
Nice actresses, or better splendid and cool looking.
Thanks for visiting my blog. In fact I could have written a similar text about French expressions as I live here or about German, my home country.
Georg
greetings all!
The triumph of women on cinema screen is TRULY an oxymoron of teh Islamic Republic and a testimony to teh COMPLEXITY of Iran's culture and politics.
It cannot be reduced to little sound bites that come out of facile minds of the western press or wester politicians!
I really wish America was run by scholars!
they look so beautiful and so persian , it is great that they are keeping their look as it is
Yeah they are typical of what "persian beauty" is supposed to look like :)
What do you mean keeping their looks though? As opposed to ?
Nice to see you support other things apart from Islamic terrorism, Naj!
Daniel Owen,
How about you stopping your support of neoconservative terrorism, and then we can have a cup of tea and crumpets!
You haven't actually read my blog, have you? I'm an anarchist, more precisely a syndicalist. I'm as anti-imperialist as you. Or more so, since you seem to have no problem with Islamic cultural imperialism. I'm an internationalist, but I love my country.
I do not support neoconservative terrorism. Unlike you, however, that doesn't mean I support Islamic terrorism. Hey, were 9/11 and 7/7 okay? It seems likely that the US government allowed the attacks to happen, and fostered Al-Queda, but the fact remains that there were Muslims ready to ram planes into buildings. Plus, something like 80% of British Muslims support Al-Queda. That's bollox.
I'd love to have a cuppa with you, I'd just like it if we were both alive to have it! ;)
I didn't know about the Iranian fim industry before. Interesting post.
Naj,
These are beautiful women. Is the actress who starred in Ten among them. She impressed me a lot !
Sophia,
She is not. I don't think sh (Mania Akbari) is a professional actor either.
These women are stunningly beautiful mashallah
I watched the Willow Tree recently-sobbed my eyes out & an Iranian film last year. I think the name was Candle n the Wind or something similiar. Both were fantastic movies. Loved them
"they look so beautiful and so persian , it is great that they are keeping their look as it is"
Well I don't think zeinobia is talking about plastic operations... or maybe she is just not aware of the amount of nose jobs performed in iran.
;-)
Nyx,
True, although some of these girls are really natural.
I will do a post on plastic surgery in Iran! In fact, I think after LA, perhaps Tehran is the second capital of plastic surgery!
I am wearing my huge Persian nose, very proudly--sign of distinction ;)
Oh my goodness, they are beautiful. Like larry gambone said, thank you for telling us what Iranian life is truly all about. Real people living real lives with issues that many of us share.
You aren't the only one who wishes that America was run by scholars. Many of us here would like that too.
pls re-upload the pics, they don't browse correctly
hmm this is interesting ardvaark, wonder what happened!
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