Panel: Understanding Iran Protests: Domestic and International Perspectives
Event details
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Tuesday 24 March 2026 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
University of Sheffield - place to be confirmed for registered people
Description
Iran in Crisis: Protests, War and Repression
Join us for a panel featuring diverse perspectives on the current protests and war in Iran. We have assembled experts and people with lived experience and access to diverse information sources from Iran. We will debate the following questions: What is happening in Iran? Why are people protesting? What are the domestic discourses and narratives about the Protests and War? What are the International perspectives on the Iran Protests and War? What are the implications of that for Iran and the world?
Chair: Dr Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli (University of Sheffield) and Pouyan, M.D (Member of the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group - SYMAAG: https://www.symaag.org.uk/about-us/)
Organisers: Migration Research Group, Kurdish Society of the University of Sheffield, SYMAAG and Iran Solidarity Net Sheff.
Panelists:
1. Yassamine Mather (Editor of Critic Magazine, University of Oxford).
2. Dr Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini (Senior NHS Consultant Anaesthetist; Independent Oxford City Councillor and Migrant Champion; Union Delegate of the British-Iranian Medical Association; Member of Medact).
3. Dr Anahita Hosseini Lewis (Research Fellow, Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London. Expertise: International Relations, Human Rights and International Law, Iranian Politics).
4. Prof. Abbas Vali (Expert in Kurdish studies and international politics; contemporary social and political thought in the Middle East politics).
Please register using the link.