The university is alive / Shahriar Shams

We begin this note with a quote from Sophie Scholl, a student who stood in front of Hitler and was executed: “I cannot understand how some people constantly put the lives of others in danger. I will never understand and I think it is terrible. Don’t tell me it’s for the sake of the fatherland.” […]...

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How did “woman, life, freedom” become the strongest bond between students and people?/ Ali Esmaeil Farahani

Students and people have become very close in the current era and it seems as if they have reached a common desire. The policies that have been implemented so far have been a major obstacle to our nation’s progress. We had become isolated islands that would come together for a moment to achieve a short-term […]...

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The university is unstoppable / Roozbeh Parsi

The relationship between students and the Ministry of Science has undergone many changes in the past years and has ranged from cooperation to complete conflict. To understand the current situation of the university, it is necessary and essential to examine the past of this relationship. During the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it was a period […]...

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The attack of security forces on the university; an endless story in Iran / Moein Khazaeei

On the evening of October 1, 2022, a number of security forces in plain clothes entered Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and attacked students. In addition to beating some of them, they also arrested several students. According to reports, especially those published by the Islamic Association of Sharif University on their Telegram channel, security […]...

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University, intellectuals, and revolutionary situation/ Farhad Morabi

The revolutionary space has its own necessities; its own applications, requirements, and theoretical and practical considerations. In this space, everything can have a multifaceted and sometimes contradictory nature. One of the challenges of the current revolutionary space in Iran is the need for reassessment and rethinking of the possibilities and essence of the various theoretical […]...

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Female students, guardians of the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom”/ Elaheh Amani

On the eve of December 7th, 1401, students from seven prestigious universities in Iran, including University of Tehran, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tarbiat Modares University, Beheshti University, Alzahra University, Khaje Nasir Toosi University, and Azad University of Science and Research, began their joint statement with this powerful poem by Langston Hughes, the most famous African-American poet, […]...

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Efforts to eliminate gender segregation among students; why?/ Voodoo Nowruz

About the discussion of students’ self-initiated actions to eliminate gender segregation in student dormitories, it is necessary to first briefly examine the concepts of university and student by borrowing from the opinions of intellectuals. The writer attempts to use these interpretations to advance the topic of university, which has various definitions. The university, which is, […]...

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The student movement is the eye to eye confrontation with the tyranny / Ali Kalai

Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the first president of Tehran University after the revolution, who himself had a long history of fighting for freedom, equality, and justice before and after the 1957 revolution, saw the university as a fortress of freedom and a tall tower guarding the Iranian nation’s quest for freedom. When Sadeq Zibakalam, a professor […]...

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Student Movement; From Migration to Resistance / Simin Moeini

Students have always played a key role in social movements that have taken place around the world. A student learns beyond their studies at university, to question events happening in society, to seek out the reasons behind them, and this activity and dynamism gives the student an independent identity. Students are defined within the student […]...

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Non-revolutionary students / Mehrnoush, the type of friend.

A group of protesters marched from in front of Tehran University towards Enqelab Square, chanting slogans. Riot police on motorcycles arrived and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd. Two young girls separated from the group and ran towards Shanzadeh Street. As they were fleeing, a boy shouted from behind the green university […]...

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A Look at the Student Movement of the 90s/Reprinting a Note by the Late Ali Ajami

The body of Ali Ajami was found on May 7th of this year in a lake in the city of Houston, America. Despite his short life, he has left behind an impressive record in defense of humanity. Mr. Ajami, born in a rural environment in Sabzevar, overcame difficulties and deprivation to enter the University of […]...

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Privatization of universities, in the service of profit and oppression/ A breath of light

This is a caption “This is a caption”Nasim Roshanayi Breeze of Brightness The Islamic Republic introduced and established itself with the discourse of “the revolution of the oppressed”. A government in which education was supposed to be free. The third principle of the Constitution emphasizes free education, physical education, and the facilitation and expansion of […]...

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