2024. “Iranian Feminist Mobilization: Paving the Way to National and Global Change.” The Wilson Center, February 14, 2024.
2023. “Women’s activism in Iran continues, despite street protests dying down in face of state repression.” The Conversation, November 16, 2023.
2023. “Women and Politics in Turkey’s Recent Elections” (in Persian). Etemad Newspaper, 19 June, 2023. (in Persian)
2023. with Homa Hoodfar “Iranian protestors are making demands in charters and bills of rights.” The Conversation, March 16, 2023. (translated to Portuguese)
2022. “Iranian women keep up the pressure for real change – but will broad public support continue?” The Conversation, October 13, 2022.
2022. “Iranian women have been protesting mandatory hijab for decades,” The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage), October 3, 2022.
2022. “Afghanistan’s women in exile continue to push for equality,” The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage), August 18, 2022.
2022. With Homa Hoodfar. “Afghan women are refusing to remain silent one year after the Taliban takeover,” The Conversation, August 10, 2022. (translated to Spanish and French)
2021. “’Hear Our Cries’: What Terrifies an Afghan Women’s Rights Activist.” The Nation, 25 August, 2021.
2021. With Homa Hoodfar. “Taliban ‘has not changed,’ say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule,” The Conversation, July 27, 2021. (translated to French)
2021. “An Effort to Silence Female Voices is Defeated, but Afghan Women Brace for More.” Ms. Magazine, March 30, 2021.
2021. With Homa Hoodfar. “Women in Afghanistan worry peace accord with Taliban extremists could cost them hard-won rights,” The Conversation, March 5, 2021. (translated to French)
2020. “Women Politicians of Iran on Women’s Rights: Critical Actors or Futile Figureheads?” Jadaliyya: Iran, March 5, 2020.
2018. With Sarah Farhan. “Women’s Candidacy and Violence against Women in the Politics of Iraq.” Jadaliyya, July 19, 2018.
2016. “Women’s Rise to Political Office on Behalf of Religious Political Movements.” Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Studies 19: 17-21. (Invited to contribute to a special issue on Women and Gender in Middle East Politics)
2015. “The Promise of Gender Parity: Turkey’s People’s Democratic Party (HDP).” Open Democracy 50.50.
2020. “Women Politicians of Iran on Women’s Rights: Critical Actors or Futile Figureheads?” Jadaliyya: Iran, March 5, 2020.
2016. “Women’s Rise to Political Office on Behalf of Religious Political Movements,” Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Studies 19: 17-21. (Invited to contribute to a special issue on Women and Gender in Middle East Politics)
2015. “The Promise of Gender Parity: Turkey’s People’s Democratic Party (HDP)” Open Democracy 50.50.
Other Publications
2018. “Women’s Candidacy and Violence against Women in the Politics of Iraq,” co-authored with Sarah Farhan (an ASC alum), Jadaliyya.
2016. “Women are not ‘foot-soldiers’: A comparative analysis of women’s political participation in Iran and Turkey” (in Persian). Zanan Emrooz (Today’s Women) No. 15: 20-21.
2015. “Women’s Political Participation in Turkey: From the Party Women’s Branches to the Parliament” (in Persian). Iranzanan (Iran Women).
2012. Book review: “The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran, by Arzoo Osanloo.” Iranian Studies 45 (4) 593-595.
