Documenting the Women-Led Protests in Iran

Rutgers University | Political Scientist Nermin Allam, a native of Egypt who focuses on social movements, gender politics, and Middle Eastern and North African Studies, discusses the women-led protests in Iran following the September 2022 arrest and beating of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman by the country’s morality police for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly during a visit to Tehran.