Iranian artist Shirin Neshats first feature film Women Without Men is an adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipurs magic realist novel. In this book the story is accompanied by a series of five video installations and photographs that follow the destiny of the storys five female characters Mahdokht, Zarin, [...]

In her mesmerizing films and photographs, Shirin Neshat (Iranian-American, b. 1957, Qazvin) examines the nuances of power and identity in the Islamic world--particularly in her native country of Iran, where she lived until 1975. "Shirin Neshat: Facing History "is the companion volume to the Smithson[...]

In this book and the exhibition it accompanies, Shirin Neshat (born 1957) looks at the connections between ancient history and the politics of the present in works that employ photography, calligraphy, poetry and filmmaking to explore the primal concepts of violence, passion and love that drive huma[...]

"Using the techniques of both the fabulist and the polemicist, Parsipur continues her protest against traditional Persian gender relations in this charming, powerful novella."--"Publishers Weekly"A modern literary masterpiece, "Women Without Men" creates an evocative and powerfully drawn allegory of[...]