Ziba Mir-Hosseini, a legal anthropologist, is a founding member of the Musawah Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family; her latest publication is the co-edited Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law.
In July 1979, six months into the Iranian Revolution that brought Islamists into power, Ahmad Shamloo wrote a poem, ‘In This Dead-End’, that proved to be prophetic and captured what was to come.