Online Film Screening of Sānsūr and Discussion with Dr. Nahid Siamdoust

The Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies proudly presents a screening and a discussion about Mostafa Heravi's documentary, Sānsūr. This film has relevance to the Women. Life. Freedom. movement in Iran today.

Registration link: bit.ly/SANSUR2024

Join us for an online screening of the film (available anytime between February 1st through February 6th), and a Zoom conversation between Dr. Persis Karim and Dr. Nahid Siamdoust on Wednesday, February 6, 2024 at 4:30 PM. The screening and the discussion are free, but you must register to receive the screening link.

Film Synopsis: Six women, who bravely defied the written and unwritten boundaries to freedom of expression in Iran, face the consequences of not conforming to censorship. An artist, schoolteacher, journalist, athlete, musician and actress experienced lay-offs, harassment and arrests.

Nahid Siamdoust has been writing about Iran as an academic and journalist for over twenty years. She’s currently an assistant professor of media and Middle East studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author of Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran (Stanford, 2017). She has published in academic journals such as Iranian Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Cultural Anthropology, and is currently working on her second book project about Iranian publics. Previously, she was an Iran correspondent for Time Magazine and a Middle East correspondent for Al Jazeera International. Her recent commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, New Lines Magazine, Foreign Policy, BBC, and NPR. In 2023, she launched the podcast series “Woman, Life, Freedom: All in on Iran,” which captures and archives important knowledge on the 2022 uprising in Iran.