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Article: Iranian women, please stand up.(GLOBAL NEWSSTAND: ESSAYS, ARGUMENTS, AND OPINIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD)(Zanan's editor Shahla Sherkat)
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- Foreign Policy
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- November 1, 2005
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* Zanan, April 2005, Tehran
In the summer of 1993, I arranged to meet Shahla Sherkat, the editor of a new monthly women's magazine, in her modest editorial offices. Sherkat had launched Zanan, which means "Women," only a year earlier. What I found when I arrived were smashed windows and overturned furniture. The night before, vigilantes had attacked the magazine's offices in Tehran. With glass everywhere, we sat on the steps leading from the terrace to a small garden. Sherkat seemed unflustered. The vigilante attack, she told me, was part of the struggle she wages every day to keep Zanan alive.
Sherkat was born to a traditional, middle-class family and ...
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