Country Profile: Iran

• Rethinking Iran Initiative (John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies)

Curriculum: Women, Life, Freedom (Rethinking Iran Initiative, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies).

Using trauma-informed approaches, this learning module is intended to equip high school teachers with the tools to engage in guided discussions about the #WomenLifeFreedom uprisings in Iran, focusing on:

• Empowering students and preventing the harmful impacts of retraumatization and vicarious trauma.

• Engaging students in a safe way that encourages self-expression and prevents developing harmful self-perception.

• Providing academically credible and accessible content to prevent misinformation.

• How issues of gender, ethnicity, and religion intersect with regards to Mahsa (Jina) Amini and the demonstrations in Iran.

• Introducing the #WomenLifeFreedom movement and forefronting the role of feminism in transnational activism.

Podcasts

• Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, hosts. “The Woman Question,” Throughline, National Public Radio, 20 October 2022. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/19/1129998206/the-woman-question

• Sean Rameswaram, host. “#MahsaAmini was just the beginning,” Today, Explained, Vox Media, 12 October 2022. https://megaphone.link/VMP5390464923

• Ervand Abrahamian, A History of Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

• Ervand Abrahamian, The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations. (The New Press, 2013)

• Narges Bajoghli, Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (Stanford University Press, 2019)

• Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002). https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mantle-of-the-Prophet/Roy-P-Mottahedeh/9781851686162

• Ervand Abrahamian, Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic (University of California Press, 1993)

• Arzoo Osanloo, The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press, 2009). https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691135472/the-politics-of-womens-rights-in-iran

• Janet Afary, Sexual Politics in Modern Iran, (Cambridge University Press, 2009). https://janetafary.com/book/sexual-politics-in-modern-iran/