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Women, Social Protests, and The New Media Activism in The Middle East and North Africa
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This paper explores the diffusion of the use of new media technologies by women through the internal and external communicative practices of social movements and the effects upon women's roles as collective agents of social change. We examine women's media activism and their roles in the region's social upheavals, with a focus on four cases: Iran's Green Protests and its feminist movement; the 2011 political revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and women's campaigns since then; and the gradualist movement in Morocco for women's rights and democratization. We show that women's cyber activism, their citizen journalism, and their self-organization both contribute to and reflect the social and political changes that have occurred in the region.
November 2014
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“Social Media, Dissent, and Iran’s Green Movement,”
Coauthored with Mehdi Yahyanejad in Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, eds. Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012: 139-153.
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After The Green Movement: Internet Control In Iran, 2009 - 2012
In 2009, protests erupted across Iran in opposition to the victory of the incumbent conservative president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over his reformist challenger, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, in the presidential elections. Mousavi and other opposition candidates roundly denounced the election results, which were pronounced only two hours after polls closed on 12 June 2009 and claimed Ahmadinejad had captured well over 60 percent of the vote. Supporters of Mousavi took to the streets in Tehran shortly thereafter and protests gradually spread to other major cities over the following weeks.
February 2013
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https://opennet.net/sites/opennet.net/files/iranreport.pdf
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Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism And Iran
Rethinking Global Sisterhood is divided into four chapters. Chapter one investigates Western women’s construction of Persian women as veiled, thereby implying they were backward subjects. It focuses on missionary women in the early twentieth century and their encounter with the Other. Chapter two traces the overlap of Western and elite Iranian feminist discourses in the modern period, producing the symbol of the veil as oppressive.
September 2010
Rethinking_Global_Sisterhood_Western_Fem.pdfThe Iranian Women's Right Movement And Election Crisis
Images of women in chador and rusari (modest Islamic dress) beaten up by security forces in the streets of Tehran and other cities in Iran have dominated the news lately. Neda’s image and her brutal death in Tehran on Saturday June 20th in a street protest demanding the annulment of the results of 10th presidential election in Iran has brought women’s active role in the post-election crisis into light. At the forefront of these non-violent demonstrations violently suppressed by the government-backed militias (Basij) are brave Iranian women.
June 2009
The-Iranian-womens-rights-movement-and-the-election-crisis.pdfCivil Society In Iran Politics of Motherhood and the Public Sphere
abstract: Civil society and the public sphere are based on historically specific moral discourse. Social movements such as the women’s movement emerge out of the internal con- tradictions of the dominant moral discourse at any historical juncture. This article explores how the women’s movement emerged in post-revolutionary Iranian society, as rep- resented in one major women’s publication, Zana ̄n. In post- revolutionary Iranian society, Muslim women activists broaden the boundaries of civil society by translating their highly praised status as mothers to active and morally recognized citizens.
December 2001
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