Iranian American actress Sarah Shahi was born and raised away from her mother's homeland. Now, watching the protests ignited by the death of Mahsa Amini, she's finding her own place in a long legacy of women fighting not only for freedom—but for joy.
On September 16, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, died after being detained by Iran’s so-called morality police. Her death ignited a long-simmering anger in the people of Iran and sparked a revolution, largely led by young women, demanding an end to the Islamic regime. For the past six weeks, they’ve faced brutal government crackdowns, but they remain undaunted, adopting the Kurdish rallying cry: "Woman. Life. Freedom.
"When you're growing up and trying to figure out your place in the world, you don't want to stick out." I remember my mother told me about a friend in college who was caught reading a book that was considered anti-Shah. He was detained and his whole family was questioned. You weren’t allowed to think outside the parameters of what the government wanted you to think.
Seeing her friends die or get arrested, she felt hopeless, lost, dejected. So one night, while the city was sleeping and the raids were momentarily inactive, she fled, leaving behind the only family, comfort, and warmth she had ever known. After she left, things only got worse. The country that birthed so many wonders of the world, with a culture full of beauty and romance, was replaced by a system that believed self-expression could be punishable by death.
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