It's been one year since a wave of protests swept through Iran as women demanded more freedom from the country's strict regime. The unrest was triggered after 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Iran's morality police, for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly. Singing and making music in public are strictly forbidden. But a ... Show More
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Srebrenica exhibition honours women who searched for truth, 30 years after Bosnia genocide
The search for Srebenica's dead continues, thirty years after Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War. Around 1000 bodies of those killed in the 1995 massacre remain unidentified. As more victims from the Srebrenica massacre are finally laid to rest, a powerful new exh ... Show More
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Oct 2024
Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway – the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is pronounced dead. By Sunday, women have taken to t ... Show More
56m 24s
Oct 2022
Ep. 45: Sheila Nazarian: 'Iran’s people are just fed up'
The women and men of Iran are fed up with the regime and are risking their lives for the future of their children, Sheila Nazarian says. Nazarian, a plastic surgeon, is the star of the Emmy Nominated Netflix Series “Skin Decision” and a passionate social media activist. In the la ... Show More
21m 31s
Nov 2024
Masoumeh Ebtekar: Is Iran's leadership in danger of losing its grip?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Iran’s former vice president for women and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar. Despite state repression, many Iranian women are still confronting restrictive laws which they label ‘gender apartheid’. Amid social and economic unrest, is today’s Iranian leade ... Show More
23m 1s
Nov 2024
The perils of standing up to Iran from Europe
From Turkey to France and the UK, Iranians who've challenged the regime at home have often sought safety in Europe. But how safe are these dissidents, really? This week we speak to Fariba Nawa, host of 'Lethal Dissent', a fascinating new podcast series that investigates Iran's ef ... Show More
48m 30s
Jan 2020
Nazee Moinian Weighs In on Iranian Protests
This week, Martha is joined by Iranian-American, Nazee Moinian, consultant on Iranian foreign policy, to discuss the recent protests after Iran confirmed it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airplane, the reaction to the airstrike that killed General Qasem Soleimani and the poss ... Show More
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