On August 25, 2023, the Iran 1400 Project interviewed Sarah Eskandari about the effects, obstacles, goals, and potential transformations of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. She described how mandatory hijab is linked to women’s empowerment and explained how international support and civil disobedience show the resilience of the movement. She also discussed the necessary cultural shifts that she believes will facilitate the realization of the movement’s objectives.
This interview is part of a series of 17 interviews on the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. If you’d like to watch the other videos from this series, click here:
Sarah Eskandari is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences. Her research interests include the dynamics of religious mobility, pandemics, the frontier challenges in Modern Iran, bargaining with patriarchy and creation of the multi-dimensional agency in modern Iran, and gender and pilgrimage in Iran-Ottoman borderlands.
