About this event
Six months ago, with the government killing of Gina-Mahsa Amini, an uprising began in Iran with the motto of No to Compulsory Hijab. Within a few weeks and with remarkable speed, the uprising led to a revolutionary movement named Woman, Life, Freedom and called for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. With its ups and downs, this revolutionary movement is now making the grounds for a full-fledged revolution in Iran.
By revisiting the criteria of this evolutionary movement and highlighting the historical resemblances with Iran’s immediate and distant past, this talk intends to look at the challenges facing this movement.
The event is organised by the Inclusion Office of the University of Luxembourg and the Comité National.
About the speaker
Prof. Touraj Atabaki is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University.
Atabaki studied theoretical physics and later history at the University of London and Utrecht University. Following working at Utrecht University, the University of Amsterdam, he joined Leiden University, where he held the Chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Atabaki’s research encompassed historiography, a social history of labour and subaltern in twentieth-century Iran, the, Ottoman/Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
His latest publications are:
- Social History of the Iranian Oil Industry (Cambridge University Press)
- Fallen in the Whirlwind. Life and Time of Iranian Migrant Latour
- Political Activists during the Soviet Great Purge (IB Tauris)