On 12 February 1979, a day after the victory of the Iranian revolution, Rana Javadi, a 24-year-old photographer responsible for some of the most iconic images we now have of the Iranian revolution, was walking the streets of Tehran, camera in hand, when she came across this scene in front of a p..
Naghmeh Sohrabi
Naghmeh Sohrabi is the Charles (Corky) Goodman professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research, Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. She is writing a book on the 1979 Iranian revolution.