Welcome to Woman, Life, Freedom: All In On Iran, a podcast series in which we go deep in conversations with experts on various aspect of the revolutionary uprising that began in Iran in September 2022, when 22-year old Mahsa Jina Amini was killed in Morality Police detention. Women and men of all walks of life – many of them very young – poured into the streets to demand the downfall of the Islamic Republic, chanting slogans that were unprecedented in the history of the now 44-year-old state. These protests were groundbreaking and different from previous ones in that they showed a united front among societal groups, including Iran’s large yet marginalized minorities, and a complete disavowal of the central ideological tenets of the Islamic Republic. The state security forces responded by killing more than 500 protestors on the streets, executing four after arrest, maiming hundreds of people who are now left without an eye or have pellet hole marks all over their bodies, and imprisoning over 20,000 people, both protestors but also journalists, lawyers, human rights activist, filmmakers, artists, and anyone with a voice whom they suspected of harboring sympathies with the movement. In each episode, we unpack an important aspect of what has been a historic moment unfolding in Iran. We draw both on our experts’ professional insights, but also engage with them as humans living through these momentous times.
Join us in this anniversary episode as we reflect on a year that has changed Iran forever. The Woman, Life, Freedom uprising that began in Iran following the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini on 16 September 2022 ignited nationwide demands for a politics that respects life itself. We sit down to discuss […]
During Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising, questions around Iran's economy became hotly contested. Join us as economics experts Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Esfandyar Batmanghelidj take us on a deep dive into understanding Iran's economy as it intersects with domestic and foreign politics, US-imposed sanctions, and the country's women and youth.
Iran's continued suppression of women's rights and political opportunities has been one of the biggest driving factors of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Join us as we explore gender discrimination in political participation and the Iran Women's Bill of Rights with Mona Tajali.
Join us as we delve into an illuminating history of sexual politics in modern Iran with the scholar of religion and modernity, Professor Janet Afary.
This movement has been nothing if not poetic. Poet and scholar of Persian literature, Fatemeh Shams, takes us through the slogans of the uprising, and some of the poetry written in its wake.
Social media has been central to the trajectory of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. In this episode, Internet scholar Mahsa Alimardani talks to us about the role of social media in this and previous uprisings, and the state's cyber strategies for clamping down on freedom of speech in Iran.
In this episode we speak to the foremost scholar of social movements and revolutions in the Middle East, Asef Bayat, and his take on Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Transcripts available on the podcast website, on the bottom of the page.
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