“Women, Life, Freedom”: A Feminist Uprising in Iran

“In this seminar I will talk about the most recent uprising in Iran following the death of a young Kurdish girl, Mahsa Amini, who sadly died while on custody of the morality police in Iran. I will discuss the issue of compulsory hijab in Iran and its political and social ramifications for Iranian women as well as Muslim women around the world.”

Zahra Tizro is senior lecturer in the department of Psychological Sciences, University of East London, having previously taught at York St John University. With degrees in psychology and gender studies, Zahra’s research interests focus on gender and violence from a cross-cultural perspective. In the context of her PhD, conducted at CWS, York, she investigated the issues surrounding domestic violence against women in Iran which resulted in the monograph Domestic Violence in Iran: Women, Marriage and Islam (Routledge, 2012). A particular interest is the exploration of violence at different scales, from the interpersonal to the international, with an empirical and theoretical focus on national and international relations. Zahra’s most recent book (co-authored with Farhad Gohardani) is The Political Economy of Iran: Development, Revolution and Political Violence (Palgrave, 2019).