Famous mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani passed away recently. Kossack La Dona wrote a diary about it here Maryam Mirzakhani, First Woman To Win The Fields Medal for Math, Dies At 40. Various news outlets ran with Maryam Mirzakhani obituary and tribute articles. You can read them all all over the media websites. Here I am just looking at two instagram posts about her.
Naturally Iranians (or Persians) were grief stricken. One of the big changes in reporting in many outlets in Iran was that images of Mirzakhani without hizab were used. In almost all previous cases images of prominient women irrespective of their field of expertise or talent images were the ones where the women in news were wearing Hizab.
There appears to be some sort of changes slowly emerging as tributes and grief appear in public media. Initially images used in domestic media and by domestic Iranian personalities and officials used an older image of Mirzakhani with Hizab. Domestic news outlets (newspapers, TV stations, websites) used older images.
Here is one from Chairman of Majlis (Speaker of Iranian Parliament) Ali larijani.
However something changed later. An instagram post by President Hassan Rouhani, made a day after the Speaker Ali Larjani, used an image without hizab.
This seems to have been a trigger/signal of some sorts for the Iranian Domestic media. Subsequent reporting, tributes and obituaries that followed used the later image.
I have no idea what is going on but something is going on. Perhaps someone with better idea might be able to shed some light. Meanwhile I await the BBC to come up with detailed analysis and commentary. Most likely however is that I am seeing something where nothing exists.
Meanwhile here are some people who noticed.
Kossacks favourites Huffpo and Guardian noticed → Guardian here → maryam-mirzakhani-iranian-newspapers-break-hijab-taboo-in-tributes Huffpo here → maryam-mirzakhani-death-iranian-press-publishes-tributes-without-hijab
My favourite thewire noticed → https://thewire.in/158366/iran-maryam-mirzakhani-hijab-taboo/
I am guessing more and more will notcie and post their own thoughts over the week. others that have included, more will probbaly come.
and the ladiesfinger here → http://theladiesfinger.com/maryam-mirzakhani/