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Alborz Ghandehari

Alborz Ghandehari

Alborz Ghandehari is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Disability Studies at the University of Utah. He is the author of the new book Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle which explores oral histories with intersectional feminist organizers across Iran’s gender justice, labor, and student movements. Also a creative writer and performer, Ghandehari is developing a folk opera based on a hundred years of Iranian freedom songs, to premiere in Los Angeles in June 2026.

As the media fixates on pro-Shah protesters, it ignores the uprising’s progressive forces & their fight for a democratic Iran, writes Alborz Ghandehari.

17 January, 2026