Shirin Neshat is a photographer, filmmaker and video artist. Through her assertive pieces she interprets the boundaries present in Islam, her home country. One of her focuses that is well known is her work concentrating on the boundaries between genders in Islam. Specifically she focuses on women of Iran and their sense of place and identity. The ‘Women of Allah’ is a series consists of four pieces, each photograph portrays a Muslim woman, who is veiled, tattooed and armed. The words that are adorned on the women’s body parts are classified as an organic form and this paired with the weapons presents the viewers with a very startling image. In this particular series Neshat explores the concept of male authority and femininity in relation to
