‘I Think the Women Are Winning’
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“No one can predict how a revolution starts,” the Iranian American poet and author Roya Hakakian . And make no mistake, she told me in an interview yesterday: The wave of protests now sweeping Iran a revolution. After 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody following her arrest for improperly wearing the hijab earlier this month, Iranian men and women have filled the streets and set fire to the head coverings that have, for many, come to represent a collective loss of freedom since they were made mandatory following the 1979 revolution. I spoke with
