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For the Sun After Long Nights

The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising

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For the Sun After Long Nights

By: Fatemeh Jamalpour, Nilo Tabrizy
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A moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists

In September 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jîna Amini, died after being beaten by police officers who arrested her for not adhering to the Islamic Republic’s dress code. Her death galvanized thousands of Iranians—mostly women—who took to the streets in one of the country’s largest uprisings in decades: the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.

Despite the threat of imprisonment or death for her work as a journalist covering political unrest, state repression, and grassroots activism in Iran—which has led to multiple interrogation sessions and arrests—Fatemeh Jamalpour joined the throngs of people fighting to topple Iran’s religious extremist regime. And across the globe, Nilo Tabrizy, who emigrated from Iran with her family as a child, covered the protests and state violence, knowing that spotlighting the women on the front lines 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 met only once in person, Nilo and Fatemeh corresponded constantly, often through encrypted platforms to protect Fatemeh. 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 to cover the stories that are closest to one’s heart—both in the forefront and from afar

©2025 Fatemeh Jamalpour, Nilo Tabrizy (P)2025 Random House Audio
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Critic reviews

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 and Brown Album: Essays on Exile & Identity

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 The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House and 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 and The Stationery Shop

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