Newsha Tavakolian has been selected as a 2006 All Roads Photography Program award-winner for her photo essay entitled Iran: Women in the Axis of Evil. The All Roads Film Project is a National Geographic initiative supporting powerful first person storytelling by indigenous and minority culture filmmakers and still photographers. As an award-winner, Tavakolian's work will be exhibited at the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival in Los Angeles, September 28 through October 1, 2006 and in Washington, DC, October 5-8, 2006.

Gathered with her friends outside a Tehran shopping mall, a young Iranian woman chats on her cell phone.

The former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini gazes down upon the children of the Islamic Revolution that pass by his portrait in Central Vanak Square.

A teacher speaks with female students at Mofid University. Mofid's philosophy program allowed women into its fold in 2003. It remains the only university in Iran where clerics and normal students co-mingle.

Two girls enjoy a day of window-shopping in northern Tehran.

Azadeh, a young divorced mother, helping her daughter prepare for school.

Veiled women walk through the snow on a visit to the graves of martyrs of the Iranian revolution at the Beheste- Zahra burial grounds, south of Tehran.

Two members of Iran's all-female Saipa soccer team relax near a soccer field located in central Tehran. As 19-year-old Niloofar Bassir (R) checks her makeup in a compact mirror, her colleague, 21-year-old Zenab Bourasi entertains herself with a ball.

Iranian women walk along a Tehran street at dusk.