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The LedeLosing Control? An Iranian and an Israeli on the Recent WarWhatever their initial war aims, the political consequences of the 12-day Iran-Israel war might not have been foreseen by either side, academic Nahid Siamdoust and political analyst Ori Goldberg tell New Lines’ Faisal Al Yafai on Global Insights on The Lede. Produced by Finbar Anderson 2025-06-2742 min $KQED\'s Forum$ KQED's ForumAs Iran and Israel War Continues, What Does It Mean for the Bay Area Iranian Diaspora?As the war between Israel and Iran continues, members of the Iranian diaspora in the Bay Area are closely watching as people in Iran are being asked to evacuate amidst travel bans, fuel shortages and internet blackouts. The United States is home to the largest Iranian diaspora outside of Iran, with over fifty percent of that population living in California. We talk with Iranian community members and leaders in the Bay Area about how these latest events fit in the larger context of the nation’s history, what it all means for the people in Iran, and how members of...2025-06-2357 min

Woman, Life, Freedom: All In On IranThe Student Edition: 2nd Anniversary of WLF 2024-12-0937 min

Woman, Life, Freedom: All In On IranDiscussing “What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom” with Arash Azizi 2024-01-191h 17

The LedeListen Again: Art, Music and Freedom in Iran — with Malu Halasa, Nahid Siamdoust and Danny Postel Iran was set ablaze last year after Mahsa Amini was taken into custody and beaten to death by the country’s morality police in Tehran for wearing “improper hijab.” The killing of the 22-year-old struck a deep chord among Iranians, inspiring protests in more than 100 cities throughout the country, marking the largest uprising Iran had seen since the 1979 revolution. Government reprisals were severe, with hundreds if not thousands of protesters arrested and tortured and several of them executed. “The volume of art and creative responses that we've seen to this uprising is really unprecedented,”says Nahid Siamdoust, author of...2024-01-0552 min

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and DemocracyHow Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran) (Repost)Original Air Date 12/24/2022 We compare the far-right religious extremists who are fighting to gain power in the US with the protests against the theocratic regime in Iran supporting women's rights in the country. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get AD FREE Shows and Bonus Content) Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: How a new Christian right is changing US politics - BBC News - Air Date 11...2023-12-261h 17

The LedeArt, Music and Freedom in Iran — with Malu Halasa, Nahid Siamdoust and Danny PostelIran was set ablaze last year after Mahsa Amini was taken into custody and beaten to death by the country’s morality police in Tehran for wearing “improper hijab.” The killing of the 22-year-old struck a deep chord among Iranians, inspiring protests in more than 100 cities throughout the country, marking the largest uprising Iran had seen since the 1979 revolution. Government reprisals were severe, with hundreds if not thousands of protesters arrested and tortured and several of them executed. “The volume of art and creative responses that we've seen to this uprising is really unprecedented,”says Nahid Siamdoust, author of...2023-09-2251 min

Woman, Life, Freedom: All In On IranWoman, Life, Freedom AnniversaryJoin us in this anniversary episode as we reflect on a year that has changed Iran forever. The Woman, Life, Freedom uprising that began in Iran following the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini on 16 September 2022 ignited nationwide demands for a politics that respects life itself. We sit down to discuss […]2023-09-142h 14

Woman, Life, Freedom: All In On IranIran’s Economy with Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Esfandyar BatmanghelidjDuring Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising, questions around Iran’s economy became hotly contested. Join us as economics experts Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Esfandyar Batmanghelidj take us on a deep dive into understanding Iran’s economy as it intersects with domestic and foreign politics, US-imposed sanctions, and the country’s women and youth.2023-08-251h 39

Black DiplomatsLiberating Iran featuring Nahid SiamdoustThe third episode of “Liberating Iran” features Nahid Siamdoust, who takes us through the history of Iranian feminism and the decades of female musical expression that defines today’s protests in Iran. Please go and buy her book, “Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran.”This is the third of five episodes that will publish each Saturday, with the final show airing September 2. Next week’s episode, the fourth of the series, will feature Yegi and Jason Rezaian , who’ll talk about the role of media in Iran. Jason’s story is well know, so Yeg...2023-08-1936 min

Black DiplomatsLiberating Iran featuring Pouya AlimaghamThe second episode of “Liberating Iran” deals with the 1953 CIA coup that overthrew Iran's leadership and how that event provides better context for Washington’s relationship with Tehran—not the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover. Historian Pouya Alimagham helps us understand how devastating the West’s role in undermining has been to fostering better relations with Tehran’s leadership and why Americans have been fed a false narrative on Iranian people and its history.Please go and buy Pouya’s book, “Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings.”This is the second of five episodes that will...2023-08-1244 min

Woman, Life, Freedom: All In On IranIran Women’s Bill of Rights with Mona TajaliIran’s continued suppression of women’s rights and political opportunities has been one of the biggest driving factors of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Join us as we explore gender discrimination in political participation and the Iran Women’s Bill of Rights with Mona Tajali.2023-06-1656 min

PR UnmaskedIran’s Protests: A Close ExaminationThis is the 7th episode of the 3rd Season of PR Unmasked. In this episode hosted by Concordia Forum, Muddassar Ahmed sits down in conversation with historian and author Arash Azizi, Founder and Executive Director of Bulbul Collective Banafsheh Madaninejad, Dr. Kamran Bokhari - Director of Analytical Development at the New Lines Institute; and journalist and author Nahid Siamdoust. This episode will examine the protests that have been taking place in Iran since the death of Mahsa Zhina Amini on the 16th of September 2022. We will be discussing the ripple effect they have triggered both nationally and...2023-04-1849 min

Woman, Life, Freedom: All In On IranSexual Politics in Iran with Janet AfaryJoin us as we delve into an illuminating history of sexual politics in modern Iran with the scholar of religion and modernity, Professor Janet Afary.2023-03-0800 min

Woman, Life, Freedom: All In On IranPoetry & Protest with Fatemeh ShamsThis movement has been nothing if not poetic. Poet and scholar of Persian literature, Fatemeh Shams, takes us through the slogans of the uprising, and some of the poetry written in its wake.2023-03-0356 min

Woman, Life, Freedom: All In On IranInternet & Social Media with Mahsa AlimardaniSocial media has been central to the trajectory of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. In this episode, Internet scholar Mahsa Alimardani talks to us about the role of social media in this and previous uprisings, and the state’s cyber strategies for clamping down on freedom of speech in Iran.2023-02-2700 min

Woman, Life, Freedom: All In On IranRevolution with Asef BayatIn this episode we speak to the foremost scholar of social movements and revolutions in the Middle East, Asef Bayat, and his take on Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Transcripts available on the podcast website, on the bottom of the page.2023-02-1400 min

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy#1533 How Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran)Air Date 12/24/2022 Today, we compare the far-right religious extremists who are fighting to gain power in the US with the protests against the theocratic regime in Iran supporting women's rights in the country. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get AD FREE Shows and Bonus Content) BestOfTheLeft.com/HOLIDAY (BOTL GIFT GUIDE!) Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: How a new Christian right is changing U...2022-12-241h 02

This is DemocracyThis is Democracy – Episode 216: Iran ProtestsThis week, Jeremi and Zachary discuss the ongoing protests in Iran with Professor Nahid Siamdoust. Zachary recites his poem "Worth Waiting For." Nahid Siamdoust is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran (Stanford, 2017). Professor Siamdoust has also published in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Der Spiegel, and Jadaliyya, among others, and she often appears in English, German and Iranian media. This episode of This is Democracy was mixed and mastered by Morgan Honaker.2022-11-0200 min

Flame Bearers: UNEDITEDZahra Nemati (Iran): Archery & HopeZahra Nemati is arguably Iran's most popular female athlete. While she grew up competing in taekwondo, after a car accident left her legs paralyzed, she decided to pick up a bow and arrow at the age of 21. Zahra’s physical disability allows her to qualify for the Paralympics, but she also was also the first to beat out many able-bodied athletes to additionally qualify for the Iranian Olympic team. In this episode, Zahra shares what it’s like to compete in both the Olympics and Paralympics, and discusses what gives her hope. Experts interviewed include Mr. Behzad Pakzad, Zahra’s coach...2020-12-3017 min

The Iran PodcastPolitics of Music in IranNegar Mortazavi speaks with Nahid Siamdoust, visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University, about music after the 1979 revolution in Iran through the Iran-Iraq war, the post-war era of pop music, political music inspired by the 2009 green movement, and today's musicians in the diaspora, in memory of legendary Iranian singer the late Mohammadreza Shajarian. (Music by Shajarian, Koveitipoor, Shabpareh, Parnaz&Ashkan). *This episode was made possible with support from Heinrich Boll Foundation. 2020-10-1539 min

Ajam Media Collective PodcastAjam Podcast #9: Soundtrack of the RevolutionIn this episode, Kamyar and Rustin reunite in New York to speak with Nahid Siamdoust, Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer and the Ehsan Yarshater Fellow at Yale University. She is the author of [Soundtrack of the Revolution: the Politics of Music in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2017) ](https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24949) Nahid gives an overview of the role of music in Iran’s social and political movements throughout the 20th century, before discussing how music became one of the first causalities of the Islamic Republic before it was slowly reintroduced, albeit with many restrictions on what can be played an...2019-02-031h 00

International Festival of Arts & IdeasISLAM & MUSIC: THE CASE OF IRANHow did the newly established Islamic Republic regulate music following the 1979 revolution, and what have been the effects of those policies on music in contemporary Iran? Journalist and author, Nahid Siamdoust shares from her book, "Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran", an alternative history of post-revolutionary Iran viewed through the field of music.2018-07-2300 min

Status/الوضعPolitics of Music In IranDr. Nahid Siamdoust is the author of “Soundtrack of the Revolution:The Politics of Music in Iran”. Interviewed by Malihe Razazan (English) Status host Malihe spoke with Dr. Siamdoust about her work and some of the most important songs that continue to define modern Iran.2017-11-071h 31

Voices of the Middle East and North AfricaVomena Sept 8th 2017: Dr. Nahid Siamdoust on the politics of music in Iran- Part 2Vomena Sept 8th 2017: Dr. Nahid Siamdoust on the politics of music in Iran- Part 2 by VOMENA Team at KPFA 2017-09-081h 00

Voices of the Middle East and North AfricaAugust 25th, 2017: Dr. Nahid Siamdoust on the politics of music in IranAugust 25th, 2017: Dr. Nahid Siamdoust on the politics of music in Iran by VOMENA Team at KPFA 2017-08-2558 min

AMEJAAFTER THE VOTE: THE GROUND SHIFTS IN IRANAFTER THE VOTE: THE GROUND SHIFTS IN IRANSponsored by the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association (AMEJA)June 19, 2009 -- In the wake of last week's election, events in Iran are moving quickly: allegations of voting fraud, massive protests and security crackdowns, emerging divisions within Iran's political class. In order to understand what's happening on the ground, AMEJA has assembled a panel of journalists covering the unrest from inside Iran and abroad. The conference call is part of an ongoing effort by the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA) to connect journalists in the U.S...2009-06-1952 min