Iran\u2019s continued suppression of women\u2019s rights and political opportunities has been one of the biggest driving\u00a0factors of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Join us as we explore gender discrimination in political participation and the Iran Women\u2019s Bill of Rights with Mona Tajali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Nahid Siamdoust has been researching and reporting about Iran as an academic and journalist for over twenty years. She is currently an assistant professor of media and Middle East studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, was the inaugural Yarshater Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, and a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. Nahid is the author of Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran (Stanford, 2017). Previously, she was an Iran correspondent for Time Magazine and a Middle East based correspondent for Al Jazeera International. Her recent commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, New Lines Magazine, Foreign Policy, BBC, and NPR.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Nahid Siamdoust","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"nahid-siamdoust","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_modified_gmt":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&p=79","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"guests":[{"ID":63,"post_author":"10","post_date":"2025-11-21 15:30:04","post_date_gmt":"2025-11-21 15:30:04","post_content":"\n
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