Iranian Women & Gender in the Iran-Iraq War

This special webinar featuring Professor Mateo Farzaneh will introduce the first book on the role of women in the eight year long war that changed the life of millions in Iran, Iraq and beyond.

Monday, 8 March 2022, at 17:00 GMT (UK time)

About our Panelists

Dr. Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh

Associate professor of history at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago

 He was born and raised in Ahvaz, Iran, until Iraq invaded in 1980. The war uprooted him and along with his family, he moved to their ancestral home in Isfahan. He immigrated to the United States in 1984 and completed his education in history in Southern California. His next two books are about Iranian women in sports as well as women and gender in the periphery. For more information on Professor Farzaneh and his publications, please click here. 

Azadeh Pourzand

Human rights researcher

a SOAS doctoral student and a human rights researcher educated at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. A copy of the book may be ordered directly from Syracuse University Press.

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