KQED Youth Takeover: Iran’s Protest Movement Through the Eyes of the Bay Area Diaspora

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Seven months ago 22 year old Mahsa Amini died in custody after being arrested by Iran’s morality police for an “improper hijab.” Her death prompted uproar and sparked a movement that extended throughout Iran and over social media. As part of KQED’s annual Youth Takeover week, Saratoga High sophomore Ryan Heshmati brings together a panel of Iranian women to discuss the viability of the movement in Iran in the face of the regime’s brutal crackdown against protesters and to discuss their own activism in the Bay Area. Guests: Ryan Heshmati, Saratoga High School sophomore Shideh, young Iranian immigrant who recently came to the United States for education Persis Karim, poet, essayist and Director for the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University Pantea Karimi, Iranian-American artist and teacher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.8	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:02.8	Youth takeover a week continues for us here at Forum and all over KQED.
1:07.7	Today we have a show produced by Ryan Hashmati, a second generation Iranian-American,
1:12.3	who, like many people across the diaspora, followed the Masatmini protests in Iran with great interest. Here we are, though, more than six months after the uprising began,
1:17.5	and it's unclear whether there will be fundamental change in Iran. Ryan, why don't you tell us
1:22.7	who we're going to have on the show today to help us really process this situation?
1:26.0	We're joined by a young woman who lived in Iran until a couple of years ago, an artist working
1:30.5	with the symbolism of hair, and Percy's Karim, head of the Center for Iranian Diaspora
1:35.3	Studies at SF State.
1:37.2	That's all coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. This morning during youth takeover here at KQED, we're joined by
1:54.7	Ryan Hashmati, a second generation, Ronnie an American, and a sophomore at Saratoga High School. Welcome, Ryan.
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