The Brewer Rewriting The Story of Beer In Iran

Published: March 20, 2023, 9:55 a.m.

Zahra Tabatabai\u2019s parents grew up in an Iran that would be unrecognizable today. \u201cThe pictures I see of my family in Iran in the sixties and seventies, they're in bikinis at the beach, drinking beer,\u201d she says. Now, after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, women are legally required to wear hijabs and alcohol is banned.