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For the Sun After Long Nights

The Story of Iran’s Women-led Uprising

Nilo Tabrizy Fatemeh Jamalpour

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English
Atlantic Books
06 November 2025
In 2022, in response to the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in police custody after being arrested for not wearing her hijab, thousands of Iranians - mostly women - took to the streets in protest. Fatemeh Jamalpour had just returned to the country after working in London and, despite the threat of imprisonment or death for her work as a journalist, joined the throngs of people fighting to topple Iran's religious extremist regime.

Across the globe, Nilo Tabrizy, who emigrated from Iran with her family and was raised in Canada, was covering the protests and state violence in Iran, knowing that spotlighting the women on the frontlines and the systemic injustice of the Iranian government meant she would not be able to safely return to Iran in the future.

Though they had only met once in person, Nilo and Fatemeh corresponded constantly, often through encrypted platforms in order to protect Fatemeh's privacy and security. As the protests continued to unfold, the sense of sisterhood they shared led them to embark on an effort to document the spirit and legacy of the movement, and the history, geopolitics, and influences that led to this point. At once deeply personal and assiduously reported, For the Sun After Long Nights offers two perspectives on what it means, as a journalist, to cover the stories that are closest to one's heart - both from the frontlines and from afar.
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Imprint:   Atlantic Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781805460923
ISBN 10:   1805460927
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Introduction: Introduction PART I: JIN / ZAN, WOMAN 1: For Woman, Life, Freedom 2: For Students. For the Future. 3: For Not Being Afraid Anymore 4: For the Sun After Long Nights 5: For Dancing in the Alley 6: For Continuous Crying 7: For My Sister, Your Sister, Our Sisters 8: For the Wounds of Baluchestan 9: For Defenseless Bodies and Lives 10: For the Imprisoned Intellectuals 11: For Nika and the Moon 12: For the Endless and Repetitive PART II: JÎYAN / ZENDEGI, LIFE 13: For What They Stole from Us 14: For the Freedom of Choice 15: For My Mom, Your Mom, Our Moms 16: For the Women Whose Feet Were Cut from Running 17: For the Regret of a Normal Life 18: For the Girl Who Wished to Be a Boy 19: For a Lifetime of Loneliness 20: For Changing Rusted Minds 21: For the Image of Repetition 22: For Bloody Aban and Its Fifteen Hundred Living Martyrs 23: Grief Is the Bitter Fruit They Set 24: For Not Being Ashamed of Poverty 25: What Can They Know of Our Distress Who Watch Us from the Shore? 26: Outside the Confines of My Body PART III: AZADÎ / AZADI, FREEDOM 27: For Kian and His Rainbow 28: My Palate's Bitt er with Grief 's Aftertaste 29: For Hanged Heads 30: How Sweet Those Days When We Were Still 31: For the Women Who Never Express Regret 32: The Roses Have All Gone 33: Goodbye, My Beloved Homeland 34: We Wait for Light and Darkness Reigns 35: For Resistance and Hope

Nilo Tabrizy is a video reporter for the Washington Post's Visual Forensics team, having previously worked as a video journalist at the New York Times.Fatemeh Jamalpour is an Iranian journalist banned from 'producing any kind of content' inside her country by the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic.-----------------------------------Nilo Tabrizy is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post's Visual Forensics team where she covers Iran using open source methods. Previously, she worked as a video journalist at the New York Times, covering Iran, race and policing, and abortion access, and at Vice News covering drug policy and harm reduction. She is a winner of the Front Page Award for Online Investigative Reporting (2022), the POY 79 Award of Excellence (2021), the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (2016), a finalist for the 2025 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, and an Emmy nominee. Nilo received her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and her B.A. in Political Science and French from the University of British Columbia.

Reviews for For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-led Uprising

For the Sun After Long Nights is the kind of fiercely intelligent and unapologetically intimate masterpiece our Iranian canon has long needed-narrative nonfiction storytelling at its finest!... If you want to fully grasp Iran today, start here. * Porochista Khakpour, author of Tehrangeles * For the Sun After Long Nights is unlike anything I've read. The alternating voices, unflinching eyes, and profound solidarity of Jamalpour and Tabrizy allow us to see the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in all its immediacy, power, and complexity. This is a searing, courageous, and ultimately beautiful book filled with the spirit of the movement that it covers. * Ben Rhodes, author of After the Fall * A powerful and moving chronicle of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. Going far beyond news headlines, this extraordinary cross-continental collaboration bears witness to the many brave Iranian women who have fought for rights and the sisterhood that Gen Z will carry forth. It is a book that could be written only by two true lion women. * Marjan Kamali, bestselling author of The Lion Women of Tehran * For the Sun After Long Nights is a staggering testament to the struggle of the Iranian people - and Iranian women, in particular - against a regime that kills to silence them. Through their interlinked stories, the authors crystallise the voices of their people, including those from ethnic minorities long-suppressed by the Islamic Republic, bringing their souls onto the pages and showing a deeply nuanced perspective of a story that is too often told in binaries. * Louise Callaghan, author of Father of Lions * Jamalpour and Tabrizy have written an essential book about a people's fight against a brutal regime led with unimaginable courage by the women of Iran. It is a beautiful achievement-a tale replete with stunning acts of bravery by Iranian women, young and old, and suffused with poetry that is exquisitely, defiantly told. * Julian Borger, Senior International Correspondent, Guardian * With their exceptional reporting and storytelling, Tabrizy and Jamalpour narrate a story that will move both those very familiar with the courageous Iranian women and students of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and inspire those who come to this book knowing very little. * Alyssa Mastromonaco, New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? * We've been led to believe that Iran is a dour and unknowable land inhabited by religious fanatics. For the Sun After Long Nights shatters that farcical narrative once and for all. Anyone as intimate with Iran as Tabrizy and Jamalpour knows Iranian women to be the nation's most vital, misunderstood-and feared-natural resource, and this remarkable book proves it. * Jason Rezaian, Director of Press Freedom Initiatives, Washington Post * A deeply insightful testament to the courage of protestors and journalists who stand firm in the face of oppression. * Ali Velshi, MSNBC * The authors offer captivating insight into the historical role women have played in Iranian politics... As the narrative builds, Jamalpour and Tabrizy present the country as caught in a vice-like trap between the regime at home and Western hostility abroad. It's a gripping view of a nation at a crossroads. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *


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