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Article: Zanan Magazine
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- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
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ZANAN MAGAZINE
An independent Iranian women's magazine.
The first issue of the monthly magazine
Zanan
(Women) appeared in February 1992 under the editorship and management of Shahla Sherkat. Fired after ten years of working in the editorial board of
Zan-i Ruz
(Today's woman) because of her "growing modernist, Western, and feminist tendencies" (Sherkat, 2003, p.4), Sherkat launched
Zanan
as an independent feminist journal. Although initially produced in a small room borrowed from the office of
Kian,
a reform-oriented journal, and with limited resources and the cooperation of only a couple of journalists,
Zanan
has grown into a professionally produced magazine with about thirty staff ...
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... ... assistant editor/chief correspondent, Diplomaire Judiciare _ Roza Eftekhari, Tehran, Iran, senior editor, Zanan Magazine _ Masha Gessen, Moscow, editor in chief, POLIT.RU _ Jie Lin, Beijing, producer, China Central TV _ Mauricio ...
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