GlobIS Review, Volume 1, Issue 3

Editorial Note: Women and Transformative Politics in Iran

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 movement has inspired a range of scholarly outputs, including academic articles in journals and specialized media focused on the Middle East. In 2023, Malu Halasa published an edited volume on the topic, followed by three books in 2024 by Arash Azizi, Pamela Karimi, and Farhad Khosrokhavar…

From the Spring of the Women’s Movement to Post-Jina Era

The Spring of Women’s Movement by Nooshin Ahmadi Khorasani

Atena Kamel

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…

The Life Story of a Female Publisher: Steady and Persistent Until the Last Breath

Nooshin Ahmadi Khorasani

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…

Engaging with some Articles on the Women, Life, Freedom Movement

Ferdos Sheikholislam

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…

Write, but Don’t Forget the Whip!

Fereshteh Habibi

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...

Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran

Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran by Pamela Karimi

Nastaran Saremy

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…

Breathing the Mist, Untangling the “Complicated”: How Scholars of Muslim Backgrounds Viewed the Jina Movement

Shima Vezvaei

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...

Revolt Against Theocracy: The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran

Revolt Against Theocracy: The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran by Farhad Khosrokhavar

Saeed Paivandi

The book is an analytical sociological and anthropological narrative of the « Women, Life, Freedom » Movement (or Mahsa Movement), which can be referred to as a protest action and a comprehensive movement as well as a profound cultural revolution…

What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom

What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom by Arash Azizi

Azam Khatam

Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table

Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table by Mona Tajalii

Manijeh Moradian

Women of the Midan: The Untold Stories of Egypt’s Revolutionaries

Women of the Midan: The untold stories of Egypt’s Revolutionaries by Sherine Hafezi

Marta Agosti

Land of the unconquerable: The lives of contemporary Afghan women

Land of the unconquerable: The lives of contemporary Afghan women by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi (eds.)

Ann Elizabeth Mayer

A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia

A most masculine state: Gender, politics and religion in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed

Annemarie van Geel

Righteous transgressions: Women’s activism on the Israeli and Palestinian religious right

Righteous transgressions: Women’s activism on the Israeli and Palestinian religious right by Lihi Ben Shitrit

Motti Inbari