You know times have changed when the question, “Is Iran next?” no longer refers to whether Iran will be the next target in the US “war on terror,” but whether or not it will be next to succumb to a wave of revolutions. I obviously don’t have the answer but I can say that there is a profound radicalization under way in Iranian society that overruns the boundaries of class and sweeps across the continuum from religious to secular.
Author: Manijeh Moradian
Manijeh Moradian is assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press, 2022), won the 2024 Hamid Naficy Book Award for the best book in Iranian diaspora studies from the Association of Iranian Studies and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies. The book also received an honorable mention for the 2023 Middle East Studies Association Nikki Keddie Book Award. She has published widely, including in American Quarterly, Journal of Asian American Studies, Radical History Review, Scholar & Feminist Online, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and a member of Feminists for Jina, a global network which formed in fall 2022 to support the women, life, freedom uprising in Iran.
Manijeh Moradian is assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press, 2022), won the 2024 Hamid Naficy Book Award for the best book in Iranian diaspora studies from the Association of Iranian Studies and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies. The book also received an honorable mention for the 2023 Middle East Studies Association Nikki Keddie Book Award. She has published widely, including in American Quarterly, Journal of Asian American Studies, Radical History Review, Scholar & Feminist Online, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and a member of Feminists for Jina, a global network which formed in fall 2022 to support the women, life, freedom uprising in Iran.