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Elham Gheytanchi (1972) is a sociologist at Santa Monica College. Elham was born in Tehran in 1972 where she lived for 17 years until she moved to the United States in 1989, and is now a naturalized citizen. She is the daughter of JJ Gheytanchi, an agricultural engineer, and M Dareshi, school principal of Etefagh (Public-private partnership school in Iran), both born in Iran. Elham Gheytanchi has worked as a journalist and is now an author, and researcher. Her research is about non-violent women's movements in the Middle East and North Africa Her scholarly writings on information communication technology (ICT and Mobiles) and the women's rights movement in Iran have appeared in a number of print and online publications, including the International Sociology Journal, Mobilization Journal, CNN 360, Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, Boston Globe, and San Francisco Chronicle. She was an associate producer at National Public Radio (NPR) (2002). She has also written numerous Persian essays about Iranian politics and culture as well as poems and short stories that have appeared in journals and on numerous Persian websites.

About
Elham Gheytanchi specializes in Iranian politics and foreign policy, with a focus on gender roles, laws, and policies in the Middle East and North Africa. She has written op-eds and scholarly articles about Middle Eastern politics and culture, developed and teaches sociology courses (Introductory Sociology, Research Methods, market research studies, Middle Eastern Sociology, Gender Sociology, and so on); teaches online courses, participates in various student retention programs while instructing and facilitating high-quality, eight-week online courses. Her specialties include: The impact of information and communication technologies on social movements in the Middle East and North Africa. For a start-up tech company, She created online help at educational and non-profit institutions, user manuals, implementation/best practice documents, training materials, and knowledge-based articles and blogs. She is also a Certified grant writer with experience in public-private partnership fundraising. Elham Worked as a technical writer developing user manuals and training pamphlets online. She is experienced in fundraising for public-private associations, annual giving, and major gifts experience to educational and non-profit institutions; she has substantial experience engaging a senior leadership team.

University of California, Los Angeles

 * ABD, Sociology
 * Master's Degree, Sociology
 * Bachelor of Arts (BA)Sociology, Chemistry.

Publications
The Iranian Revolution Still Haunts Its Jewish Survivors

Forward - May 8, 2018

As a girl, she witnessed the horrors of the Iranian revolution. As an adult, she still can’t escape the memory.

Iran’s Green Movement, Social Media and the Exposure of Human Rights Violations

Cambridge University Press - July 1, 2016

“Iran’s Green Movement, Social Media and the Exposure of Human Rights Violations” in Information Politics, Protests, and Human Rights in the Digital Age edited by Mahmood Monshipouri, Cambridge University Press, 2016: 177-196.

“Gender Roles in the Social Media World of Iranian Women”

Social Media in Iran: Politics and Society after 2009 edited by David M. Farris and Babak Rahimi  December 1, 2015

Women, Social Protests, and the New Media Activism in the Middle East & North Africa

International Review of Modern Sociology, Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2014, pp. 1-26  March 1, 2014

We examine women's media activism and their roles in the region's social upheavals, with a focus on four cases: Iranian feminist movements in 2009; the 2011 political revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and the continuing women's movement in Morocco.

Iran Feature: More Battles in Cyber-Space (Gheytanchi)

Enduring America  - May 2, 2011

Arrests that might result from this surveillance are a damaging outcome, but even before those detentions, the cyber-war wins by instilling fear in people, a very efficient way to suppress existing as well as potential dissenting voices in Iranian society. An attack such as the one carried out by the Comodohacker can easily scare activitists and the general population into further self-censorship themselves because of concerns of state prosecution. Once fear is internalized and the cyber-attack is talked about as a malicious and omnipotent force, the momentum for social movements may decline significantly.

Without the ability to communicate safely and securely, the activists risk detention and social movements risk total suppression. Planning of demonstrations, boycotts, reporting of abuses to the outside world, and development of world-wide campaigns for human rights and womens rights will not be possible in Iran without secure and speedy communication via the Internet, social networking sites, and mobile platforms.

The Comodohacker's boasting remarks are emblematic of the Iranian states strategy to break dissent: they exaggerate their action to create fear and pose threats to achieve their goals in the most efficient manner. He and they wish to shatter resilience in the face of suppression.

“Wahlverwandtschaften zwischen der Frauenrechtsbewegung und der Grunen Bewegung”

Inamo - (Germany)  October 1, 2010

The relationship between Iranian women's movement and the Green movement.

Political Opportunities and Strategic Choices: Comparing Feminist Campaigns in Morocco and Iran

Authors: Valentine M. Moghadam and Elham Gheytanchi - Abstract

How do women's rights activists mobilize in non-democratic and culturally conservative contexts? Why do some women's movements succeed in securing the policy outcomes they seek while others fail to realize their objectives? Comparing two recent cases of feminist activism in the Middle East/North Africa region-the Moroccan and Iranian campaigns for family law reform-the article demonstrates the way that political opportunity structures shape the strategic options available to activists and influence movement frames. While a political opening is conducive to movement growth and success, including cooperation for legal and policy reform (Morocco), the closing of political space compels extra-institutional feminist contention and transnational links (Iran). In examining the structure of political opportunity in addition to strategic choices, the paper addresses the interplay of structure and agency in mobilization processes and finds that-to paraphrase Marx-women and men make history, but not under conditions of their own choosing.

I will Turn off the Lights: The Allure of Marginality in Post-Revolutionary Iran

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East  January 1, 2007

"I will Turn off the Lights: The Allure of Marginality in Post-Revolutionary Iran," in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Journal 27.1, 2007: 175-225.