The Critical Room: Waiting for a new revolution
After the film, NRK’s Gro Holm and anthropologist Pardis Shafafi will discuss the situation today and whether there is hope for a better future for a population pushed to the breaking point.
Four years have passed since the tragic death of Jina “Mahsa” Amini. The popular uprising that followed brought hope that things might change for the better in this vast country of more than 90 million people. Since then, the people’s hopes have been brutally crushed by the clerical regime and by devastating attacks from the United States.
The discussion will be held in English.
Panelists
Gro Holm – is a foreign affairs commentator for NRK. She has served as NRK’s correspondent in the United States and Russia and has reported extensively on Iran.
Pardis Shafafi – British-Iranian anthropologist affiliated with the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Politique at EHESS in Paris. Her research focuses on state violence and political repression in Iran. She is co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Anthropology in Action and has a been one of the authors of the book, The Long Iranian Revolution – State Violence and Silenced Histories.
Moderator: Mina Adampour – physician, brain researcher, commentator and author. Her parents came to Norway as political refugees from Iran. Together with her sisters, she wrote Afsaneh – Our Mother’s Story: From Iran to Norway with Love.
About the film
Through five moving portraits, filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani shows how ordinary people have suffered throughout the successive eras of modern Iran, from the Shah’s brutal rule, through the revolution, to the oppressive clerical regime.
