Women, Life, Freedom: Iran Uprising

UCL Minds

Our first episode is led by Dr Fatemeh Sadeghi, a research fellow of the UCL's and Institute for Global Prosperity's ERC Project Takhayyul. Fatemah is a political scientist who is an expert on Iran. This episode discussed how the uprisings in Iran were received in different parts of the world, specifically in China, Pakistan, India, Bahrain, Turkey, and the UK. The guests were Dr Sumrin Kalia from Takhayyul, Dr Yuan He (IGP), Dr Alaa Shehabi, a UCL scholar and a former member of the IGP, Rumeysa Camdereli, a Muslim feminist intellectual and activist, and an anonymous scholar (pseudonym HS) and activist from India. The episode was chaired by the Primary Investigator of Takhayyul, Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Prosperity, IGP) with technical support by Hazal Aydin, the research assistant of the project from Koc University, Turkey; and Meryem Zisan Koker, the assistant to Dr Sehlikoglu. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp/transcript-women-life-freedom-iran-uprising-its-international-impact Date of episode recording: 2022-10-07 Duration: 01:21:39 Language of episode: English Presenter: Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Fatemeh Sadeghi Guests: Sumrin Kalia, Alaa Shehabi, Yuan He, Rumeysa Cambdereli, Hazal Aydin, Meryem Zisan Koker Producer: Sertaç Sehlikoglu