In this episode we speak to the foremost scholar of social movements and revolutions in the Middle East, Asef Bayat, and his take on Iran\u2019s Woman, Life, Freedom movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this episode we speak to the foremost scholar of social movements and revolutions in the Middle East, Asef Bayat, and his take on Iran\u2019s Woman, Life, Freedom movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-ln-on-iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2025\/11\/Woman-Life-Freedom_Episode-01_Revolution-with-Asef-Bayat.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"1:09:07","filesize":"79.1M","filesize_raw":"82939664","date_recorded":"2023-02-14 17:30:00","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[],"categories":[],"series":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-5","1":"podcast","2":"type-podcast","3":"status-publish","5":"series-woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast","6":"entry"},"acf":{"related_episodes":"","hosts":[{"ID":79,"post_author":"10","post_date":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_date_gmt":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_content":"\n
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":76,"post_author":"10","post_date":"2025-11-21 17:39:39","post_date_gmt":"2025-11-21 17:39:39","post_content":"\n
Asef Bayat, is Professor of Sociology, and Catherine & Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Illinois, he taught at the American University in Cairo for many years; and served as the director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) holding the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research areas range from social movements and social change to religion and public life, urban space and politics, and contemporary Middle East. His recent books include Being Young and Muslim: Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (ed. with Linda Herrera) (Oxford University Press, 2010); Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam (Oxford University Press, 2013); Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2013. 2nd edition), Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (Stanford University Press, 2017), Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century (ed. With Linda Herrera) (University of California Press, 2021), and Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring (Harvard University Press, 2021).<\/p>\n","post_title":"Asef Bayat","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"asef-bayat","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-11-21 17:39:40","post_modified_gmt":"2025-11-21 17:39:40","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&p=76","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"transcript":""},"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2025\/11\/WLF_Draft-02LOGOstacked.png","download_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/podcast-download\/5\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-revolution-with-asef-bayat.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/podcast-player\/5\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-revolution-with-asef-bayat.mp3","audio_player":"