A striking black-and-white photographic portrait by Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat, featuring a close-up of a woman's eyes and face partially veiled, overlaid with flowing Persian calligraphic text in ink. The work explores the tension between identity, femininity, and cultural and political constraints placed upon Iranian women. The interplay of the gaze and the written word challenges Western perceptions of Islam while asserting a complex, layered sense of selfhood and resistance.