Roza Eftekhari

Roza Eftekhari was the senior editor of Zanan magazine, Iran’s first feminist journal. She is a writer, translator and editor. After graduating from Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, she started working on women’s issues in Iran and joined Zanan Magazine. As the senior editor, she has been responsible for the planning and selection of topics, articles and interviews. In the past few years, she has also been the person in charge of developing the ideas section of Zanan, which has been a lively forum for heated discussion about the role of women and the dynamics of patriarchy in Iran and the Islamic world in general. In 1999, she became a member of the team that created the project “Religious Intellectuals and Women’s Issues in Iran.” This major project, involving the publication of interviews with prominent religious intellectuals and clerics, offered the first and most comprehensive forum for religious intellectuals and women to engage in conversation on women’s issues and the ways these issues intersect with the objectives of the reform movement in Iran. Her research at the Shorenstein Center will examine the impact Zanan magazine has had on public policy in its ten years of existence.