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Ban of women's strolling in Lalah-zar, 1911
Doctor Stepanian complains about the way police have been questioning women passing through Lalah-zar neighborhood and how it has affected his patients who are afraid to come to his office.
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Letter from Muzayyan al-Saltanah to Iran-i naw, 1911
Letter from Maryam Muzayyan al-Saltanah, daughter of Razi Tabataba’i, on behalf of women's charity society, proposing training classes for midwives, public bath attendants, and nannies, to be supervised by a certified woman approved by the Department of Health
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Correspondence regarding the murder of Hakim Haq Nazar, 1899
Including 1- a petition by Rahil to Mushir al-Dawlah, regarding the murder of her husband, Haq Nazar, a Jewish doctor in Kurdistan. She claims the murderers were hired by Ishaq, another Jewish doctor; 2- a telegraph from Muhammad Yusuf from Kurdistan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran, regarding the murder of Haq Nazar by Fattah, son of ‘Abd al-Rahman, Ma‘ruf, and another person -- all Ottoman nationals. The murderers are in jail but ‘Abd al-Rahman is conducting a sit-in at Hajar Khatun Imamzadah and the house of Shaykh Shukr Allah. The writer requests accountability from the...