Azadeh Kian
Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut | |
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آزاده کیان | |
Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
Nationality | Iranian-French |
Alma mater | University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (DPhil) |
Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut (Persian: آزاده کیان; born 1958) is an Iranian-French academic, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Social Sciences department and Director of the Center for Gender and Feminist Studies at the University Paris Cité.[1] She is included and recognized in the BBC project 100 Women.[2]
Biography
[edit]She studied and completed her PhD at UCLA, under the supervision of prominent political sociologist Michael Mann.
From 1987 to 1990, Kian was a lecturer in political sociology at UCLA. In 1995 she joined the faculty of University Paris III, and later the University of Paris VIII Saint Denis. She is a research expert on Iranian and Maghreb studies, and is a researcher for the Iranian laboratory CNRS. Notable works include Avoir vingt ans en Iran (Alternatives, 1999), Les femmes iraniennes entre islam État et famille (Maisonneuve & Larose, 2002) and La République islamique d'Iran : de la maison du Guide à la raison d'État (Michalon, 2005).[3] In 1996 she published the article Des femmes iraniennes contre le clergé: islamistes et laiques pour la premiere fois unies in Le Monde diplomatique,[4] and in 2010 she published the article Islamic Feminism in Iran: A New Form of Subjugation or the Emergence of Agency? in Critique internationale journal.[5] In her works, she is critical of Islamic laws (shari'a) in Muslim countries and sees them as a threat to women's rights of equality.[6]
The Servizio d’informatione religiosa (SIR) defined her “the most listened woman of the Iranian diaspora”.[7]
In 2024, for her book « Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran: An Intersectional Approach to National Identity » published in Canada by Bloomsbury Publishing, she won the Latifeh Yarshater Award, assigned by the Persian Heritage Foundation.[8]
Activism
[edit]She is among the most consulted Iranian diaspora women in the world to comment the social and political evolutions of her native country.[9] [10]
She described the moment of the death of Mahsa Amini as a turning point where civil society openly contradicts Iranian power (“What's unprecedented about these protests is that women are leading the chargel”)[11][12] and she delivered a pitch as invited guest in the European Parliament in october 2022 after a meeting with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.[13] She spoke at Les Echos Belgium about talebanization of power in Iran. [1] In November 2022, she affirmed that the crisis in Iran is a revolution aiming to change the regime, and not just a protest from civil society.[2]
Publications
[edit]- Thiébaut, Azadeh. Secularization of Iran: a Doomed Failure? The New Middle Class and the Making of Modern Iran (Travaux et memoires de l'Institut d'Etudes iraniennes). Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9042900326
- Thiébaut, Azadeh. Les femmes iraniennes entre islam, Etat et famille. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2002. ISBN 2706816147
- Eshraghi, Isabelle, Azadeh Thiébaut Thiébaut, and Seyyed E. Nabavi. Avoir 20 ans à Téhéran. Paris: Ed. Alternatives, 1999. ISBN 2862271942
References
[edit]- ^ "Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut". Middle East Institute. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "100 Women: Who took part?". BBC News. 22 November 2013.
- ^ "Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut". Bibliomonde.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ Sarah Ansari; Vanessa Martin (May 2014). Women, Religion and Culture in Iran. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 9781317793403.
- ^ "Articles by Azadeh Kian". Cairn International. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ ViSA: Instrumentation de la recherche en éducation (in French). Les Editions de la MSH. 2013. p. 89. ISBN 9782735116218.
- ^ "Iran: Azadeh Kian, "la protesta delle donne un punto di non ritorno per il mio Paese" - AgenSIR". 4 October 2022.
- ^ Latifeh Yarshater Award azadeh kian
- ^ "Nationwide repression: Iran demonstrations hit home for diaspora women".
- ^ "Le proteste in Iran viste dai movimenti delle donne - Il Post".
- ^ "Iran Demonstrations Hit Home for Diaspora Women".
- ^ https://amp.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/iran-demonstrations-hit-home-for-diaspora-women/news-story/628c83fb4c6c6ac5a24a9637aafdf607
- ^ "Opening of 3-6 October plenary session in Strasbourg | Atualidade | Parlamento Europeu". 3 October 2022.