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Since protests began in Iran four weeks ago, the artist Sherin Nishat has been glued to her phone.

I think for most of us living outside of Iran, we pretty much expected that we will go

very likely the rest of our lives in the state that we are. Maybe

thing will go up and down a little in Iran, but we'll never go back and then came this day

and this news and we thought, oh wow, this is just another short uprising with last a few days

or a week. And now it's like we're entering the fourth week. The longest uprising we've had

since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. And the people that Iran are furious.

Sherin lives in the US, she has since the 1970s. But over the last 30 years,

she's become one of the most esteemed well-known artists making work about Iranian women

in the world. And women are leading the current protests, mostly really young women.

The protests began after the death of 22-year-old Masa Amini. Masa had been detained by Iran's morality

police for allegedly not properly observing the hijab and she died in their custody.

But her death sparked action that's grown far beyond a call for justice for Masa's family

and beyond fighting for the laws around women's dress. It sort of unleashed a kind of rage that

was brewing in people's hearts and lives and it was almost as if they were having to wait for

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