Unveiled: Inside Iran’s #Wom­an­Life­Free­dom Revolt chron­i­cles the most exis­ten­tial chal­lenge to have faced the Islam­ic Repub­lic of Iran in its forty-six-year his­to­ry. That most exis­ten­tial threat was posed not by Israel or the Unit­ed States, eco­nom­ic dis­tress or a loom­ing envi­ron­men­tal dis­as­ter, but by the regime’s own free­dom-seek­ing women. In Sep­tem­ber 2022, short­ly after twen­ty-two-year-old Kur­dish-Iran­ian woman Mah­sa Jina Ami­ni was killed by the regime’s moral­i­ty police for alleged­ly wear­ing her hijab too loose­ly, protests swept across Iran. Women ripped off their head­scarves and set them alight. Oth­ers cut their hair in open defi­ance of the regime. Key indus­tries and busi­ness­es were brought to a stand­still amid mass protests. Once-revered ban­ners of the country’s Supreme Leader were incin­er­at­ed. What made the protests most extra­or­di­nary was that in a deeply male-dom­i­nat­ed soci­ety, women and girls, per­haps for the first time in the his­to­ry of the mod­ern Mid­dle East, were front and cen­ter of a nation­wide upris­ing, fer­vent­ly call­ing for a freer Iran and chant­i­ng the now-viral bat­tle cry of: ​“Woman, Life, Free­dom.” Draw­ing on exclu­sive, heart-wrench­ing inter­views with sur­vivors of the ​‘Woman, Life, Free­dom’ protests and key Iran­ian oppo­si­tion lead­ers in the dias­po­ra, Unveiled will serve as a much-need­ed guide as the remark­able sto­ry of the ​“Woman, Life, Free­dom” protests con­tin­ue to unfold.