November 11, 2022
Linda Blaser
CBS News interviews Ahmad Sadri for his insight on Iran uprising
A CBS News correspondent from London interviewed Gorter Professor of Islamic World Studies and Professor of Sociology Ahmad Sadri on campus for his insight on the current uprising in Iran.
Correspondent Roxana Saberi quoted Sadri in her November 11 digital print story, “How art is amplifying the Iran protesters’ demands for ‘woman, life, freedom!’”
Women in Iran have been casting off their mandatory headscarves in public following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on September 16 while she was in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
The uprisings have prompted artistic and musical protests. The song Baraye, which means “for the sake of,” has become the unofficial anthem of the protests and been performed around the world. A YouTube video of the Iranian male singer’s song was viewed 40 million times in less than 48 hours.
Sadri is quoted in the CBS News piece on the situation that now exists in Iran where artists feel emboldened “to express themselves and to chime in with this revolution,” he said.
“It’s ironic that the government really tried to colonize the young people’s minds and now it has been replaced by one guy singing a song into a camera,” Sadri is quoted.
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