The future of Iran could be changed forever by the protests in September 2022 sparked by the death in police custody of Jîna (Mahsa) Amini, a Kurdish woman from the city of Saqez who was arrested for wearing her hijab “improperly.” The protests have generated an inspiring and new..
Farangis Ghaderi and Ozlem Goner
Farangis Ghaderi is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the co-editor of Women’s Voices from Kurdistan (2021) and author of academic articles on Kurdish culture and literature. She is associate editor of the Kurdish Studies Journal and has also worked as an independent Middle East consultant.
Ozlem Goner is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her book entitled, Turkish National Identity and its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim, was published by Routledge in June 2017. She is also the author of many academic and popular journal articles on Kurdish identity and politics.