Authors

Iran Page Editors

Naveed Mansoori is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at UCLA. 
 

Manijeh Moradian is a writer, educator and activist based in New York City. Her essays and articles have appeared in the Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties, Scholar & Feminist online, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Comparative Studies of South Asian, Africa, and the Middle East, Social Text online, jadaliyya.com, and Callaloo. She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective.

Negar Razavi is a political anthropologist with a focus on critical security studies, expertise, gender, race, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Her research specifically examines the role of policy experts and think tanks in shaping U.S. security policies towards Iran and Egypt. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and is teaching at William and Mary as a Visiting Assistant Professor in anthropology.

Catherine Sameh is Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at The University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Axis of Hope: Iranian Women's Rights Activism across Borders (University of Washington Press, 2019), which examines the discourses, practices, methods, organizational cultures, and transnational networks of Iranian women’s rights activists in Iran and the United States.

ARTICLES BY Iran Page Editors

  • Essential Readings on the 2022 Uprising in Iran

    Essential Readings on the 2022 Uprising in Iran

    Taking our lead from the Kurdish slogan “women, life, freedom” and from the feminist origins of the current uprising in Iran, we offer these readings to encourage critical engagement and debate within a transnational context. This unprecedented feminist revolutionary movement has challenged many..

  • Statements of Solidarity with the 2022 Iran Uprising

    Statements of Solidarity with the 2022 Iran Uprising

    The feminist uprising in Iran has captured the attention of the world and inspired expressions of solidarity and coalition from feminists, activists, and scholars around the globe. We offer this page as a living archive of this breathtaking historical moment and a testament to the deep..

  • A Note from the Iran Page Editors Concerning "Mourners in Common"

    A Note from the Iran Page Editors Concerning "Mourners in Common"

    Our intention in publishing “Mourners in Common,” which like most of our content is an unsolicited submission, was to feature ethnographic research about the popular mourning of a pillar of the Iranian state (Soleimani) and one of its recent stalwart critics (Shajarian). How can we make sense of..

  • Jadaliyya Launches New Iran Page

    Jadaliyya Launches New Iran Page

    The Jadaliyya Iran Page provides a robust and capacious forum to rethink how we have hitherto thought about and represented Iran and Iranians. The page adds to current perspectives and extant practices of knowledge production about the country and its place in the world. Above all, it e..