Il movimento Donna Vita Libertà, “con la sua idea generale di transizione dalla tirannia religiosa, ha accelerato il processo per la democrazia, la libertà e l’uguaglianza in Iran”. E ha contr...
Farian Sabahi
Farian Sabahi is a senior researcher in Contemporary History at the University of Insubria.
Specializing in Iran and Yemen, she is a member of Sissco (Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History), Sis (Italian Society of Women Historians), and Aiso (Italian Association for Oral History). She graduated in Economics from Bocconi University and in Oriental History in Bologna. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London with a thesis on the "Army of Knowledge" during the reign of Muhammad Reza Pahlavi (1963-79).
Her research focuses on buy-back petroleum contracts and free trade zones in the Persian Gulf. She is involved in the study of the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, using a multidisciplinary methodology with particular attention to minorities and gender issues.As a professional journalist, she collaborates with Il Corriere della Sera, Il Manifesto, and the radio program 'WikiRadio' on Rai RadioTre.
Events IJF 2024
Tehran, Damascus, Kabul: how the EU can support the battle for women's freedom
La più recente e forse più violenta ondata di proteste del popolo iraniano contro il regime teocratico a guida del paese esplode il 16 settembre 2022, a seguito della tragica morte di Mahsa Amini, a...
The democracy and freedom dreamed of so recently by the young protestors in Tunis and in Tahrir Square is a rapidly fading memory. In Syria the massacres continue, Libia Tunisia and Egypt are once a...
