Scholars discuss the global significance of protests in Iran

Students attend a Sept. 20 demonstration at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran

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Manijeh Nasrabadi–assistant professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Barnard College and Columbia University–spoke in a virtual discussion Tuesday, October 4th, co-hosted by Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs in partnership with Columbia’s Middle East Institute.

The talk, called “Iran Protests: Gender, Body Politics and Authoritarianism,” also featured commentary from Kathryn Spellman Poots, on faculty at MEI at Columbia University and Aga Khan University, and Nadje Al-Ali, director of the CMES at Brown.