eMagazine January 2023
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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
TIME<br />
Article of the Month<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
<strong>January</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
Perspective<br />
Highlights<br />
Reflections<br />
Innovation and Technology<br />
Nursing Division<br />
Women’s Health Education<br />
Global Local<br />
Art to Remind Us of Who<br />
We Can Be<br />
Article of the Month<br />
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Among the Letters<br />
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These younger women are now in the streets. The movement they’re leading is<br />
educated, liberal, secular, raised on higher expectations, and desperate for<br />
normality: college and foreign travel, decent jobs, rule of law, access to the<br />
Apple Store, a meaningful role in politics, the freedom to say and wear whatever.<br />
They are quite unlike those who came before them; sometimes they feel more<br />
like transnational Gen Z than Iranians: they are vegans, they de-Islamicize their<br />
names, they don’t want children. I’ve often wondered what has made them so<br />
rebellious, because their ferocious character was evident well before 22-yearold<br />
Mahsa (Jina) Amini, arrested at a metro station by the morality police who<br />
enforce the dress code, died after being held in their custody on Sept. 16, setting<br />
off the most sustained uprising in the 43-year history of the Islamic Republic. The<br />
average age of arrested protesters is notably low—Iranian officials estimate as<br />
young as 15. I can only conclude that when a generation’s aspirations for freedom<br />
appear tantalizingly within reach, the more humiliating the remaining restrictions<br />
seem, and the less daunting the final stretch of resistance feels.<br />
Link to the Article:<br />
Heroes of the Year 2022; Women of Iran<br />
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