On August 29, 2023, the Iran 1400 Project interviewed Nahid Siamdoust about the effects, obstacles, goals, and potential transformations of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Dr. Siamdoust analyzed the progress achieved by women in expanding their influence within public domains and championing their rights. She detailed how women engage in subtle and consistent resistance to regain control over their bodies, emphasizing the significance of understanding these modes of opposition.
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:
Nahid Siamdoust is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Siamdoust has taught at Oxford University, New York University, Yale, and Harvard. She is the author ofSoundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran(Stanford, 2017) and her writing has been published in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Der Spiegel, and Jadaliyya, among others.
