Nahid Siamdoust
Nahid Siamdoust is currently an assistant professor of media and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Texas at Austin. In the academic years 2026-28, she is a EUME fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, jointly hosted by the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is the author of “Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran” (2017), and was previously a Middle East-based journalist for Der Spiegel, TIME Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and Al Jazeera English TV.
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An Anguished Debate Among Iranians
The war has occasioned an anguished debate among Iranians. The division that has emerged — between those who will not support a war on their own country and those who have, through suffering and desperation, arrived at support for the war — is real and painful and will not be resolved easily.
Bombarded by Propaganda, the Iranian People Are Uniting Behind an Anti-War Message
The Iranian media landscape is awash with propaganda from both Israel and the regime of the Islamic Republic. Yet amid this toxic atmosphere, an anti-war message is crystallizing.
Woman, Life, Liberty: A Slogan One Hundred Years in the Making
Women across the country gathered on the streets and fed their headscarves to bonfires. In dramatic public acts, they climbed cars and cut their hair. “Iranians will die,” they chanted, “but they won’t suffer humiliation.”