Haideh moghissi wikipedia
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Second Eastern Women's Congress
Second Eastern Women's Congress, also known as Second General Congress of Oriental Women and Second Oriental Women's Congress was an international women's conference which took place in Tehran in Iran in between 27 November and 2 December 1932.[1] It was the second international conference to unite women's organizations of the Middle East, following the First Eastern Women's Congress.[2]
Life
[edit]The conference was arranged with royal support by Iran's leading women's rights organisation Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah, under the leadership of Ashraf Pahlavi, with participants from the Arab World and Eastern Asia.[3]Ashraf Pahlavi served as the honorary president of the Congress and Sediqeh Dowlatabadi as its secretary. Šayḵ-al-Molk Owrang of Lebanon served as its President, and Fāṭema Saʿīd Merād of Syria, Ḥonayna Ḵūrīya of Egypt and Mastūra Afšār of Persia belonged to the organization committee.
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Dr. Moghissi was a founder of the Iranian National Union of Women and member of its first executive and editorial boards, before leaving Iran in 1984.
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Her publications include articles in refereed journals and chapters in edited volumes and following books: Muslim Diaspora, Gender, Culture and Identity (ed.) London: Routledge (2006) Three volume Women and Islam:Critical Concepts in Sociology (ed.) London: Routledge (2005); Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis, London: Oxford University Press 2000 (Zed Press, 1999, winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award) and Populism and Feminism in Iran :Women's Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement, London: Macmillan Press; New York: St.Martin's Press (1994.). She has served as Coordinator, Certificate for Anti-Racist Research and Practice (CARRP) and Chair of the Executive Committee of Centre for Feminist Research at York University and also as a member of the executive committee
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Hijab in Iran
For the lag, see Hijab and chastity law.
After the 1979 Iranian revolution, the hijab became the mandatory dress code for all Iranian women by the order of Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of the new Islamic Republic.[1] Hijab was seen as a tecken of piety, dignity, and identity for Muslim women.[2]
The Safavid dynasty centralized Iran and declared Shia Islam as the official tro, which led to the widespread adoption of hijab by women in the country. Shia Islam served as a tool for the Safavids to consolidate the diverse ethnic groups under their authority and to differentiate themselves from their Sunni Muslim adversaries.[3] Free women continued to wear hijab as a prevalent mode trend during the Qajar era, with increased inspiration from europeisk fashions and materials. In parallel, slave women did show themselves in public unveiled, but where in contrast not viewed as respectable women.[4] The Pahlavi era (19