Stop the War Now! 

The devastating US-Israeli war on Iran and Israel’s war on Lebanon show no signs of ending soon. What is behind the attacks and how can we organize to oppose them without supporting the Iranian theocracy?

Haymarket Books and Tempest Magazine hosted this panel discussion on March 26, 2026.

Speakers:

Rima Majed is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Department at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She is the co-editor of The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution. Her work has appeared in several journals, books and media platforms including American Political Science Review, Social Forces, British Journal of Sociology, Global Dialogue, OpenDemocracy, CNN, and Al Jazeera English.

Manijeh Moradian is assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press, 2022), tells the story of Iranian students who organized against US support for the Shah of Iran in the 60s and 70s. She has been an anti-war activist for many years, serving on the United for Peace and Justice organizing committee for the February 15, 2003 global protest against the US invasion of Iraq. She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and a member of Feminists for Jina, a global network which formed in fall 2022 to support the women, life, freedom uprising in Iran.

Ida Nikou is a sociologist working on international political economy, labor regimes, and financialization, with a focus on Iran and the Middle East. She received her PhD at SUNY Stony Brook and is currently based in Germany. Her research examines how sanctions, neoliberal restructuring, and financialization transform class relations, labor precarity, and patterns of worker resistance in Iran. She has written on sanctions and labor struggles in Iran for venues including MERIP, Jadaliyya, and the Global Labour Journal, and is currently developing new work on sanctions, accumulation, and state restructuring in Iran.

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