Woman, Pen, Freedom – Part Two
In this two-part podcast, Sahar Naseri speaks with Sarvār Kasemai—an Iranian writer, translator, and intellectual based in France—about writing as an act of resistance. From Ms. Kasemai’s lived experiences in the years following the Revolution and during exile, to the role of literature in preserving collective memory and reflecting the people’s suffering and hope, the […]
Woman, Pen, Freedom
In this two-part podcast, Sahar Naserii speaks with Sarvār Kasemai, an Iranian writer, translator, and intellectual living in France, about writing as a form of resistance. From Ms. Kasemai’s lived experience in the years following the Revolution and during exile, to the role of literature in preserving collective memory and reflecting the people’s suffering and […]
The Power of the Virtual World: A Free Space for Women
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 […]
Structural Violence in Iran’s Education System
Continuing from the previous episode, this time we look at structural violence from the perspective of families and society. In this section, with the program expert Ms. Saba Alaleh, a political-social psychoanalyst, we discuss the role of teachers in identifying violence, raising parental awareness, and the shocking cases of child abuse in schools. We examine […]
Death in School: Structural Violence in Iran’s Education System
In the first part of this series, we examine four shocking deaths in Iranian schools: children who lost their lives within school walls under the pressures of fear, poverty, and punitive discipline. In this episode, we discuss child suicides, deaths caused by teacher punishment, and the role of families that, instead of providing protection, become […]
The Life-and-Death Challenges of Prisoners and Women’s Prisons in the Islamic Republic
According to reports from the Iran Human Rights Organization and independent sources, since 2010, at least 97 prisoners have died due to denial of medical services in Iranian prisons. In 2024 alone, more than 18 deaths related to lack of medical treatment were reported. Fashafouyeh, Raja’i Shahr, and Qarchak prisons have the highest numbers of […]
The Death Machine Under Velayat-e Faqih – World’s Highest Rate of Women Executions
In 2025, Iran broke a three-decade record: more than 1,100 death sentences in less than a year, with an unprecedented increase in executions of women, children, and political protesters. In this episode, Sahar Naseri and Nazila Golestan, together with guest Hassan Naib Hashem, a physician and human rights activist, examine official and unofficial statistics to […]
Transition from the Velayat-e Faqih’s “Gender Apartheid” (Interview with Hannah Newman – Part Two)
Conversation between Nazila Golestan from Iran Hamāva and Hannah Newman, Head of the Europe-with-Iran Group The Raavi–Hamāva podcast series aims to expand the national discourse around universal values, democracy, the separation of religion and state, human rights, gender equality, and the protection of Iran’s territorial integrity. Within such a framework, through collective wisdom, we can […]
Transition from the Velayat-e Faqih’s “Gender Apartheid” – Interview with Hannah Newman (Part One)
Conversation between Nazila Golestan from Iran Hamāva and Hannah Newman, Head of the Europe-with-Iran Group
What Are the Biggest Challenges Facing the Mahsa Movement After Three Years?
The Women, Life, Freedom movement continues to flow at the heart of Iranian society, but it faces significant challenges. The regime has attempted to silence the movement through executions, arrests, digital surveillance, and internet censorship, while civil society has borne heavy human and economic costs. Widespread repression, the lack of organized leadership within the country, […]
Women, Life, Freedom: Achievements
The torch of the Women, Life, Freedom movement remains in the hands of women and men standing for human dignity—from the streets of Kurdistan and Sistan and Baluchestan, the shores of the Caspian and the pristine coasts of the Persian Gulf, to Tehran, from universities to sports fields. Three years have passed since the death […]
Beyond the Hijab (Part Two)
In the second episode, part two, Sahar Naseri, Nazila Golestan, and the program guest Mansoureh Hosseini-Yeganeh, a researcher and journalist specializing in women’s issues, explore: what are the main demands of today’s Iranian women? Can the Velayat-e Faqih regime maintain its survival with slight concessions regarding the hijab, or does this retreat indicate an ideological […]