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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The Iranian Generation; Revolution for Bringing Public Affairs Closer to Private Matters / Purity Seeker

The first time Robert Capa, an anti-war photojournalist (1913-1954), described the young people of the 1950s as “Generation X” in one of his photo collections. However, this term did not become popular until thirty years later, when a novel titled “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture” was published in the 1980s. The novel, written […]...

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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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Hafez Musavi: Iranian artist is inevitably involved with social and political issues/ Mehrnoush No’edoust

Examining the committed art and social responsibility of the artist in conversation with Hafez Musavi, poet. Who is a committed artist? Is art simply a result of an artist’s reaction to political and social situations? What is the state of committed and protest art in the current protests in Iran? These questions have been asked […]...

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Karim Lakzadeh: The only way for cinema to join our recent protests is through suicide/ Ali Naseri

“Examining Iran’s Protest Cinema in Conversation with Karim Lakzadeh, Film Director” Karim Lakzadeh believes that in Iranian cinema, films have always been made that appear to be protest films, but in reality, they have only been used by opportunists to advance the filmmaker’s goals and gain international recognition. Given that these days, the art of […]...

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“Manifestation of Protest and Revolution / Behzad Kambouzia”

An overview of the visual works arising from the movement of “Women, Life, Freedom”. In recent weeks, the intensity and severity of events and important developments have been so high that it has likely changed the meaning of time for many of us. It is as if imagining the situation in Iran before the murder […]...

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From the enlightenment movement to women, life, freedom / Reza Najafi

A few notes about protest literature in Iran. When discussing “protest literature,” some may think that our understanding of this concept is synonymous or closely related to “commitment in literature” or, in another reading, “committed literature”; an understanding that itself has a “leftist” color and smell. Although “leftist literature” is also an example of this […]...

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The story testifies / Alireza Ismailzadeh

Literature has recorded the first execution to the last massacre. You must have heard this sentence many times: “Their work is finished.” From the mouth of a taxi driver, a working woman, a daily wage laborer, or a student who has confidently set a deadline: “They won’t see the end of 1401,” “Next year in […]...

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A Note on Protest Art These Days/ Behzad Asadi

If we consider art and artists as a part of society (and not as individuals living in a vacuum), then it can be said that the protest against all forms and types, including art, from the perspective of Karl Marx’s theory begins; against the “art for art’s sake” period of bourgeoisie, who wanted art without […]...

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