Date: February 16 2023 Time: 10:00AM EST Location: Online Description: The Wilson Center’s Middle East Program hosted leading women’s rights advocate and former Minister for Women’s Affairs of Iran Mahnaz Afkhami at the 2023 Haleh Esfandiari Forum. Afkhami launched her journey in activism more than four decades ago. Prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, she…
Author: Jessica Molander
Contextualizing the Iranian Protests
Western sanctions have slowed Iran’s economy, causing protests against the absence of freedom and opportunities — teachers their lack of pay; farmers their lack of water; retirees their fear of economic insecurity. But at the heart of this powerful new movement has been Iran’s women, whose frustration with Iran’s misogynist theocracy had been mounting for…
Iran and the Women’s Movement with Mahnaz Afkhami and Samira Mohyeddin
Date: January 22 2023 Time: 2:00PM EST Location: Online Description: @BanyenBooksSoundVancouver hosts Mahnaz Afkhami, leading women’s rights advocate who served in the pre-1978 Cabinet of Iran, in conversation with CBC radio host Samira Mohyeddin in conversation on exile, protests, Iran, and the women’s movement. In The Other Side of Silence, Mahnaz Afkhami shares her unexpected…
Special Program: Girls of the Sun Land
The program focuses on the effort of Iranian women in the 2022 protests that began after the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahnaz Afkhami is interviewed at 48:25.
Conversation on the Women-Led Uprising in Iran with Mahnaz Afkhami & Goli Ameri
Date: December 6 2022 Time: 5:00 PM EST Location: Online Description: On December 6th, 2022, PAAIA hosted an enlightening conversation on the women-led uprising in Iran featuring Mahnaz Afkhami, Founder and President of Women’s Learning Partnership & former Minister of Women’s Affairs in Iran, and Goli Ameri, Co-Founder and CEO of Startitup & former U.S.…
Breakfast with Iranian Women Leaders at Georgetown University
Date: December 5 2022 Time: 9:00AM EST Location: Georgetown University President’s Room, 3rd Floor of Healy Hall Georgetown University 3700 O Street NW Washington, DC 20057 Description: This conversation will explore Iranian women’s leading role in the ongoing, nation-wide protests. We will discuss how today’s resistance builds on a long history of advocacy by Iranian…
Book Report
In this brief book report, Caralee Adams of Bethesda Magazine discusses Mahnaz Afkhami’s memoir The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement. Adams also shares a brief background on Afkhami.
A conversation with former Minister for Women's Affairs in Iran, Dr. Mahnaz Afkhami on her new memoir: “The Other Side of Silence: a Memoir of Exile, Iran and the Global Women’s Movement”
Date: November 17 2022 Time: 5:00PM EST and 7:00PM EST Location: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Nelson Mandela Auditorium FedEx Global Center 301 Pittsoboro St. Chapel Hill, NC Description: Join Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi, director of the UNC Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies, for a conversation with Dr. Afkhami about the…