Global Iranian Studies Review - GlobIS Review is a bilingual website to review works related to Iran in the field of social sciences in Iran and the world

The Women, Life, Freedom (WLF) movement, which emerged in September 2022, has garnered significant interest among academics and researchers in exploring the interactions of women’s activism and feminist movements with transformative politics in Iran and other countries in the Middle East…

The book Spring of the Women’s Movement: A Narrative of Tears and Smiles, as its title suggests, is a personal archive of the years of the emergence and expansion of the women’s movement after the 1979 Revolution put together by one of the feminists participated in it…

Shahla Lahiji (1942-2023) was one of the four female publishers in Iran, founding publishing house in the early years following the 1979 revolution. Roshangaran, her publishing house, published many of the feminist books that emerged in the 1990s and 2000s…

During and after the Jina Uprising, many articles were written about this uprising by various experts and social activists, which are important to analyze and review from the perspective of understanding this event and evaluating the current currents of thought in the public sphere of Iran….

This is the 50th issue of Zanan-e Emrooz—a significant milestone for a journal we have dedicated ourselves to for years, pouring our hearts and pens into its publication. It has taken over a decade to reach this point, with each issue representing a unique journey, a new spirit, and an entirely distinct world for me….

Woman, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran, by Pamela Karimi is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary art in Iran, especially in relation to social transformation and contemporary political upheavals…

When scholars, essayists, and journalists discuss Iran and its politics, writing in English, they often incorporate images of traditional tilework, women walking past propagandist graffiti in Tehran, and, frequently, obscure verses from Rumi. While local authors like myself may dismiss these practices as self-Orientalizing, I couldn’t help but reflect on Rumi’s famous lines while writing this review…

Revolt Against Theocracy is the latest book by Farhad Khosrokhavar, a sociologist and university professor in France, about one of the most important collective protest actions of recent decades. The book is an analytical sociological and anthropological narrative of the Women, Life, Freedom Movement (or Mahsa Movement)…

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