An Iranian American Rom-Com That Breaks the Mold
Iranian women tend to be portrayed in popular culture and the media more as symbols than as actual people. They’re frequently reduced to unforgettable and contradictory images: the willowy ingenues of Persian miniature tableaus, housewives of the 1960s and ’70s frolicking in miniskirts and bathing suits, a sea of anonymous all-black chadors after the 1979 revolution, and, in recent years, protesters shedding and burning their veils.