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Sama Khosravi Ooryad

Sama Khosravi Ooryad (she/her) is a MSCA-PhD candidate in Film and Media Studies at the department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg. She is a passionate gender, film and media researcher and her current research interests are internet memes, (beyond-Western) digital spaces, online hate cultures, global rise of the (far-)right, feminist theory, and the entanglements of these fields and forces in co-constituting and complicating our understanding of today’s digital cultures.

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Khosravi Ooryad discusses the feminist aim that drove the formation of the recent Iranian uprisings after the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini.

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Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
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