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Kiana Hayeri (Ryerson University)
Your Veil is a Battleground
Bronze
International Picture Story
International Picture Story
Your Veil is a Battleground captures the daily lives of a group of young Iranian women who take risks to put on a bit more makeup, push their headscarves farther back, roll their sleeves up, and wear more colourful outfits. Every summer, when heat wave arrives, the morality police, with ridiculous rules, start a crackdown, mostly on women over their look and outfits.
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Three women shop for wig in a high-end shopping mall in north of Tehran. Dying your hair blond or certain colors would cause you getting fined by the morality police in the newest crackdown.
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Sheida discusses and argues with her friends if her manteau is 'too revealing' and whether it will get her into trouble or not.
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Tina helps her friend roll up the sleeves of her manteau evenly, as the girls get ready to go out. A woman's body should be fully covered, except her hands and face so the morality could stop you at anytime if the sleeves are rolled up.
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Shayesteh argues with her 'over-protective' brother over the outfit she had chosen to wear for her birthday party.
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Women are not allowed to swim, in the public, even fully clothed. Sheida and Behnoosh escape the hot and humid night and hit the Caspian Sea with their manteaus and scarves on. Later in the night, they were forced to leave the beach by morality police.
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Some cafes refuse to serve hooka to women, this has especially been escalated since President Ahmadinejad was elected in 2005. Sheida and her friends manages to find a shoreside cafe in a less touristy beach, ending their night in peace.
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