In this episode—a conversation with Shaghayegh Norouzi—we explore the vital role of the virtual space in the lives of Iranian women: from blogs of the 2000s to Instagram-based businesses, from chat rooms to podcasts of resistance. How have women, despite censorship, threats, and cyberattacks, turned their personal pages into arenas of protest, education, solidarity, and survival?
We discuss the power of expression, silenced voices, the underground digital economy, the government’s engineering of public opinion, and ways to recognize truth within a landscape polluted by propaganda.
From the female body framed in dance to home-based businesses in the face of repression, this episode is a narrative of “virtual power” standing against real walls.
The Ham-Avā podcast series seeks to expand the national discourse around universal values, democracy, the separation of religion and state, human rights, and gender equality.
Within such a framework, we can move along the path of collective wisdom toward a free and dignified Iran—for all Iranians, regardless of belief, thought, gender, ethnicity, or background.