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Right now in #Leiden joined with colleagues from Leiden #University, protesting the cuts in higher education 💪🏽 thanks to Leiden municipality & UniLeiden’s collaboration for this last minute gathering #Netherlands #protest #budgetcuts

Journalist & #activist #KianushSanjari committed suicide to protest the dictatorship of Iran's supreme leader. He had warned on social media he would take his own life if four #politicalprisoners were not released. The prisoners were arrested after the #WomanLifeFreedom uprising. #Iran #protest

"We firmly support the right to #demonstrate and reject any #criminalization of #peaceful #protesters. We refuse to be divided and remain steadfast in our fight against the erosion of higher education." #DutchAcademia #budgetcuts #protest woinactie.blogspot.com/2024/11/stat...

Statement by the coalition again budget cuts in HOWOinActie is een beweging van studenten en medewerkers en maakt zich sterk voor de universiteit en haar toekomst.woinactie.blogspot.com

The #Migrant #Academics book I co-edited with Olga Burlyuk (@OpenBookPublish) has now been downloaded in *130* countries 😊 We are so delighted to see how it has been received 🙏🏽 #precarity #academia #resilience Download your copy here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in EuropeThis volume consists of narratives of migrant academics from the Global South within academia in the Global North. The autobiographic and autoethnographic contributions to this collection aim to decol...www.openbookpublishers.com

I am absolutely speechless. Our nationwide #protest against Dutch budget cuts in higher education on #Nov14 in #Utrecht has been cancelled because of fears of ‘#violence by #pro-Palestine’ ?!?!?! protesters. This is so ridiculous & so insulting on so many levels nos.nl/l/2544350

Onderwijsprotest geschrapt, Utrecht vreest geweld pro-Palestijnse demonstrantenDe gemeente heeft de organisatie aangeraden om de betoging af te blazen, omdat een pro-Palestina-organisatie die mogelijk met geweld zou willen kapen.nos.nl

In this paper, published earlier this year, called "Legitimating #Misogyny and #Femicide: Legal Himpathy and (State) Violence against Women in #Iran," I explain how the #Iranian #PenalCode facilitates femicide and #uxoricide. #ViolenceAgainstWomen #VAW www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/13...

Legitimating Misogyny and Femicide: Legal Himpathy and (State) Violence against Women in IranOn the fifth of February 2022, a man gruesomely murdered his seventeen-year-old wife, Mona Heydari, in a city in a southern province of Iran. The man then shocked bystanders by strolling in public spa...www.mdpi.com

Alright, it seems like it’s finally time to make the permanent move from the other place to here.

My "Notes from the Field" piece for @politicsgenderj.bsky.social about research after #WomanLifeFreedom is out: '(#Gender) #Politics in the Field: The Precarities of #Diasporic (Women) Scholars of #Iranian Politics during & after the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Uprising' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#CallForPapers Babak Rezaei & I are excited to announce the call for papers for our forthcoming volume, “A New Awakening? #Resistance and #Activism in #Iran during & after the Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising.” #WomanLifeFreedom @aissr.bsky.social See the CFP here: tinyurl.com/2hjss6ud.

Just watched the wonderful Francesca Albanese’s insightful, inspiring & hugely informative lecture on #Palestine, the history of occupation & the international law & UN perspectives thanks to Leiden University Law School’s livestream. Int law is clear: #ImmediateCeasefire #PermanentCeasefireForGaza

We are thrilled that our edited book “#Migrant #Academics’ #Narratives of #Precarity and Resilience in Europe” is out #openaccess. This project narrates & theorizes the everyday killjoy work that migrant academics do in Global North #academia. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in EuropeThis volume consists of narratives of migrant academics from the Global South within academia in the Global North. The autobiographic and autoethnographic contributions to this collection aim to decol...www.openbookpublishers.com