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…
Category: Events
Eleanor Roosevelt Dialogue Series
Date: November 14 2022 Time: 10:00AM EST Location: Center for Strategic and International Studies 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 Description: In a private event with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Mahnaz Afkhami discusses the current uprising in Iran and the history of women’s human rights in the country.
Women in Iran: Past, present, and future - A double book talk with Mahnaz Afkhami and Mona Tajali
Date: November 13 2022 Time:11:30AM PST Location: Online Description: Mahnaz Afkhami is the author of Women in Exile and editor of Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World. Her new memoir The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement explores her journey from English professor…
The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement
Date: November 11 2022 Time: 1:00PM EST Location: Online Description: Mahnaz Afkhami joins Dr. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi to discuss her new memoir and her experiences organizing for women’s rights in Iran and globally. Click here to view the event page and recording
Woman, Life, Freedom: Iran & Revolutions Led by Women
Date: November 7 2022 Time: 4:00PM EST Location: Georgetown University Eric E. Hotung International Law Building 550 1st St NW Washington, DC 20001 Description: Join special guest Mahnaz Afkhami for a discussion on her new book and the Mahsa Amini protests. Learn how we can support the human rights movement in Iran. Dean William Treanor…
YPO Live - Iran: Is It Difference This Time
Date: October 27 2022 Time: 11:00AM EST Location: Online Description: In a closed door session for the Young Presidents Organization, Mahnaz Afkhami joined a panel of Iranian leaders Paul Saulem and Afshin Molavi to discuss the history of organizing for rights and freedom in Iran.
Mahnaz Afkhami’s The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement - with Azar Nafisi
Date: October 16 2022 Time: 3:00PM EST Location: Politics and Prose 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 Description: In The Other Side of Silence, a skilled storyteller who has spent her life in two worlds, Mahnaz Afkhami shares her unexpected and meteoric rise from unassuming English professor to a champion of women’s rights in…
Digital Film Launch: It's Up to Us
Date: Friday, June 12, 2020 Time: 11:00 am-12:30 pm Description: Around the world people are facing unprecedented challenges to their health, security, and human rights. The recent coronavirus pandemic has revealed that the current structures of power are unable to respond to current and new crises, and in fact often exacerbate these crises. WLP’s newest documentary, It’s…