Sadegh Shojaii
Stars of Deprivation
In August 2006, one year after Ahmadinejad won his first term of presidency, a new round of purges began to expel critical students from Iranian universities. Despite receiving admission to graduate programs from government-run universities, about 1,500 student activists ran into difficulties at the time of registration; some stars had ...
The Universities are Alive
The student movement makes up a major and vital node of the Green Movement body both in terms of quality and quantity, because it serves as a cross-point for other individual movements such as women, labor, and ethnic group movements. The student movement effectively creates a space for a coalition ...
Thirty Years of Purging Dissident Academics
In 1980, a Persian New Year’s message by Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the newly victorious Iranian revolution, marked the start of a new chapter of state control over Iran’s universities. Every word of the message promoted the vision that the country’s newly-empowered revolutionaries had for the universities: “There will ...
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