Zan-e Rooz ( fa, زن روز, Italic=yes, "Woman of Today") is a women's weekly

Persian-language Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and u ...

magazine published in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. The magazine was first published in 1964. The first issue hit the newsstands in Tehran on 27 February 1965, and the magazine gained an immediate success. The inaugural issue of ''Zan-e Ruz'' was published in 15,000 copies, and in 1968 the magazine boasted a print run of 140,000 copies. Its founding editor-in-chief and co-founder was Majid Davami. Before Islamic revolution Kayhan publishing company was the editorial and publisher. After the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...

, as women's political activity alongside men increased, publications focusing on women's issues sprang up to answer the increased demand. Due to this, ''Zan-e Rooz'' shifted from being a Western-style gossip sheet to a publication dedicated to exploring the rights of women within the Islamic framework.

Contributors

Writers with this publication include

Poopak Niktalab Poopak Niktalab (born 19 May , 1970) (Persian: پوپک نیک طلب or ) is an Iranian education theorist, author and literary researcher, specially of children's literature. Life She was born in 1970 in Tehran in a cultural and literary fam ...

, Nooshafarin Ansari and

Aminollah Rezaei Aminollah Rezaei (March 22, 1936 in Hamedan - 2004 in Tehran) was an Iranian painter, designer and poet. He was the first person to introduce Surrealist painting to Iran. For this reason, he has been called the father of Iranian surrealist paintin ...

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