Persian. American.
World wanderer.
Tara Jamali is a writer and photographer with a degree in Global Communications.
Trilingual and multicultural, she divides her time between the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. Her areas of interest include art, culture, and travel.
Ever since completing her graduate thesis on the representation of Middle Eastern women in media, she has found a calling in reporting on feminist issues in the Middle East, particularly the Woman Life Freedom movement in Iran.
Formerly an obituary notice editor at The Boston Globe, her work has appeared in Ms. Magazine, The New Feminist, More to Her Story, San Diego Union-Tribune, The New Arab, Inspirelle Paris, and others.
Articles
Meet Forouzan, Iran's Fearless Star of the Silver Screen
Iran's cinematic histroy is incomplete without Forouzan, a forgotten icon of Farsi cinema who fearlessly danced across Iran's cinema.

One Year After Mahsa Amini, Iran's Women Are Defying Mandatory Hijab Laws
More than a year after the murder of Mahsa Amini, women are defying compulsory hijab on an unprecedented level.
Blog Posts

Brigitte Bardot: A French Icon of Femininity
If France were a woman, she’d be Brigitte Bardot. With her sex appeal, classy yet norm-defying fashion sense, curvaceous figure, and carefree approach to life, Brigitte Bardot embodied French femininity…

Still I Am Traveling
It was the summer of 2006. The World Cup Games were in full swing, and I was in Germany, where the Games were being held and where I was visiting my relatives for the occasion.
