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Manijeh Moradian on Iranian Student Revolutionaries in the US--Diasporic Politics and Global Alliances
Today we talk with Manijeh Moradian about her book, This Flame within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States, which documents the formation of Iranian student activists in the US in the 1970s, and their impact on the Iranian revolution.
This Flame Within is not only a book about history, but also a book about memory and the importance of retrieving these memories of anti-imperialist pasts against the backdrop of a thoroughly imperial present for the possibilities of building anti-imperial futures.
Among many of the things we discuss is the cross-pollination between these groups and…
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