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Zan-e Rooz or Zan-e Rouz or Zan-e Ruz () is an Iranian weekly women's magazine published in Tehran, Iran since 1965. From its founding until the 1990s Zan-e Rooz was the most popular magazine in Iran.
Prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution cover models included Empress Farah Pahalvi, Behrouz Vossoughi, Giti Pashaei, Googoosh, Jean Shrimpton, and Twiggy, among others. During the revolution images of protests and burqa-clad revolutionaries were featured on the cover.
After the 1979 Islamic Revolution the editorial board was overhauled and Zan-E Rooz became an Islamic lifestyle magazine. The magazine moved away from the Western-style gossip sheet and women's publication that it was previously and now explored the rights of women within an Islamic framework.
Shahla Sherkat was appointed editor in 1991, she was quickly accused of "promoting modernist, westernised and feminist tendencies," and fired the same year. Sherkat then founded Zanan magazine which became the most popular feminist magazine in Iran before publication was suspended in 2008 by order of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad government.
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