By: Kat Gingolaski, Staff Writer Rumeysa Öztürk, a third-year doctoral student at Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was detained by federal officials on March 25, 2025. Rumeysa is a Fullbright Scholar and a Turkish national with an F-1 student visa studying child and adolescent development. On the 25th, […]
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Iranian Women’s Fight for Freedom of Choice: Approaching Forty Years of Compulsory Hijab Rules
By Kurt Valentine, Web Editor On March 8, 1979, International Women’s Day, more than 100,000 Iranian men and women filled the streets of Tehran to protest the compulsory dress code enacted by the recently formed Islamic Republic of Iran.[1] “This turned out to be the last day women walked the […]