Jadaliyya’s Iran Page interviewed Sima Shakhsari and Niki Akhavan about their efforts in the “No Sanctions on Iran” campaign, a digital activist initiative designed to raise awareness about the deleterious effects of U.S. sanctions on everyday people and politics in Iran. Shaksari and A..
Niki Akhavan and Sima Shakhsari
Niki Akhavan is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Media and Communication department at the Catholic University of America. She is the author of Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution (Rutgers, 2013)
Sima Shakhsari is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexualities Studies at the University of Minnesota. They are the author of several articles and a book titled Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan (Duke University Press, 2020).