Democracy in Iran / Nojang Khatami

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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We speak with political science scholar, Nojang Khatami who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Justitita Center for Advanced Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. Beginning in the fall of 2023, he will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. Nojang is on to talk about his Boston Review article, “The Lifeblood of Iranian Democracy: From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.”

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0:00.0	You're welcome, Neil?
0:05.0	You're welcome to come, Neil. This. This is hell. I don't know about you Dan, but the most enjoyable part of election night last night,
0:35.0	why, I don't know if you watched anything on TV or followed it online or anything,
0:39.4	but my favorite part of the whole evening was Fox News in denial about losing while
0:46.6	CNN was telling, trying to explain to everybody why they were wrong in their
0:50.1	prediction that there would be a red wave that Republicans would have this
0:54.1	huge win last night. So my favorite part of the whole evening was Fox News and
0:59.6	denial and CNN apologizing and trying to figure out what went wrong.
1:04.5	What was your favorite part about last night?
1:06.4	Not watching any of the election results?
1:08.2	You had me in suspense just telling me about it.
1:10.1	This is the first I've heard about it.
1:11.8	I think I checked at 245.45 in the morning.
1:14.0	What were you doing up at 2.45 in the morning?
1:17.0	Jolt it awake. Having some sort of nightmare.
1:19.0	But yeah, they said some weed got on the ballot that we're going to be able to unionize here in Illinois.
1:25.3	And that sounded pretty good to me.
1:27.1	But so did the Senate flipped blue?
1:29.3	It's called blue?
1:30.3	I have no idea.
1:31.3	I haven't even looked.
1:32.3	I don't want to look because I know that the real results we won't know for a couple of days anyway
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