Authors

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).

ARTICLES BY Niki Akhavan and Sima Shakhsari