1979 Generation Episode 3: Haideh Moghissi on Feminism, Revolution and the Right to Joy

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Oct 31, 2022 Iran

1979 Generation Episode 3: Haideh Moghissi on Feminism, Revolution and the Right to Joy

By : Manijeh Moradian

[This interview was conducted as part of the "1979 Generation" series on Status/الوضع. Click here to listen to previous episodes in this series.]

About the "1979 Generation" Series


This series focuses on feminism and revolution by drawing on personal memory as well as activist and scholarly engagements. Iran Page co-editor, Manijeh Moradian, interviews Iranian feminists who lived through the 1978-1979 revolution and whose experiences and insights contribute to a body of knowledge that is invaluable for understanding the revolution and politics in Iran today. We invite our guests to tell their stories of revolutionary upheaval and the contested role of women in the national liberation project and to reflect on what feminism means to them. Our hope is to create an archive of the lived experiences of Iranian feminists of the "1979 generation" that can preserve their legacy and make it available to future generations.

1979 Generation Episode 3: Haideh Moghissi on Feminism, Revolution and the Right to Joy


In the third episode of “1979 Generation,” Jadaliyya’s Iran Page co-editor, Manijeh Moradian interviews Haideh Moghissi on the history of women’s resistance to compulsory hijab and how the grandchildren of the 1979 generation are rectifying the mistakes of the past.

Haideh Moghissi


Haideh Moghissi was a founder of the Iranian National Union of Women and member of its first executive and editorial boards, before leaving Iran in 1984. Her publications include articles in refereed journals and chapters in edited volumes and following books: Muslim Diaspora, Gender, Culture and Identity (ed.) London: Routledge (2006) Three volume Women and Islam:Critical Concepts in Sociology (ed.) London: Routledge (2005); Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis, London: Oxford University Press 2000 (Zed Press, 1999, winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award) and Populism and Feminism in Iran :Women's Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement, London: Macmillan Press; New York: St.Martin's Press (1994.). She has served as Coordinator, Certificate for Anti-Racist Research and Practice (CARRP) and Chair of the Executive Committee of Centre for Feminist Research at York University and also as a member of the executive committee of the Centre for Refugee Studies. She has served as a commentator on Iran and women in the Middle East on BBC World Service, CBC, Radio France, and Voice of America, and on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of Journal of Comparative Public Policy, the Rutledge Women and Politics Series, Resources for Feminist Research , and Women in Struggle and Equality (Tehran). Presently she is the director of an international comparative research project, “Diaspora, Islam and Gender”, that is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) and the co-principle investigator of a Ford Foundation research project, “Muslim diasporas: Heightened Islamic identity, gender, and cultural resistance.”

Manijeh Moradian


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, and Callaloo. She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective.

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Jun 20, 2022 Lebanon
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Status / الوضع Issue 9.2 is Live!

A new issue of Status/ الوضع  is on the horizon! This edition - made special to kick off (what in some parts of the world) is Summer 2022 - comes packed with programs, panels, and standalone interviews, covering topics as varied as Arabic dialects in Sub-Saharan Africa to an analysis of the Nile River as a realm of practice.

Front and center on our issue homepage is a talk by Jennifer L. Derr on the contents of her book “The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt,” which places the environment at the center of questions about politics, knowledge, and the lived experiences of human bodies.

From our partners at Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA), we feature a two-part conversation with Professor Natasha Iskander, who documented labor practices on Qatari construction sites. VOMENA also contributes conversations on the latest developments in Tunisia, a debrief of Morocco’s summit with Israel by Samia Errazouki, Desmond Tutu’s solidarity with Palestine and political prisoners in Iran, and much more highlighted below. 

This issue also features two interviews which approach the invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of its intersections with Southwest Asia and North Africa. A conversation with Madhdis Keshavarz of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association touches on the biased coverage of Ukraine and New Lines’ Executive Editor Faisal Al Yafai speaks with award-winning journalist Anand Gopal about Putin’s military incursions in Syria and Ukraine.

Fans of our programs and episodic content can listen to some brand new Security in Context, featuring two episodes on Palestine - a conversation with Palestinian-Canadian activist and journalist Khaled Barakat on anti-Palestinian smear campaigns which have been on the uptick, and a larger group discussion on Palestinian solidarity with Noura Erakat, Mouin Rabbani, Yara Hawari, and Lina Meruane.

Two new episodes of Connections are featured in this issue. Host Mouin Rabbani speaks with Alison Glick and Nora Lester Murad about the challenges and rewards of narrating personal experience and political realities in Palestine. In Episode 23, he speaks to political scientist Cas Mudde on the coherence of the far right as a global movement. 

In our featured Panels for this issue, you can watch “What’s Happening in Yemen?” a forum of scholars and activists - including Hassan El-Tayyab, Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Yazeed al-Jeddawy, Azal Alsalafi - provide a bottom-up perspective on the conflict in the country. Another panel of scholars focus on the roles that countries in Southwest Asia and North Africa play as partners in U.S. imperialism. 

As always, there is much more featured in this issue – to watch and listen to more, visit our homepage and subscribe to listen to our interviews on the go on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!