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'For the Sun After Long Nights' is a history of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

'For the Sun After Long Nights' is a history of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

Update: 2025-10-06
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Three years ago, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Jina Amini was fatally beaten by Iran’s morality police. She’d been arrested for not following the Islamic Republic’s dress code. Her death sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement, one of the largest uprisings in Iran in decades. Journalists Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy tell this story in their new book For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising. In today’s episode, Jamalpour speaks with Here & Now’s Jane Clayson about the movement and Iran’s future.


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'For the Sun After Long Nights' is a history of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

'For the Sun After Long Nights' is a history of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement