Zeynab alsadat Peyghambarzadeh

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Iran Academia

Review: Saeidzadeh, Zara. 2020. Trans and Sex Change in Contemporary Iran: A Socio-Legal Study of Gendered Policies and Practices. PhD diss. Örebro University: Centre for Feminist Social Studies. (159 pages)

Bisexual asylum seekers constitute a very low percentage among LGBT asylum seekers (Rehaag, 2009). While there is not enough data about the percentage of bisexual individuals among the LGBT population of the countries where most of these asylum seekers come from, some studies claim that the number of individuals who are attracted to more than one s...

LGBTQ rights in Iran have been a popular topic of discussion in Western media in recent years. While Western politicians, social activists, and media, are expressing their anxiety about the violation of human rights of LGBTQs in Iran, the government of Iran, like many other non-western governments, claims that engaging in same-sex sexual conduct is...

Bisexuality has received minimal attention from the Persian media and journals on LGBT human rights in recent years. Iranian bisexuals have no voice of their own and have been judged based on homosexuals’ stereotypes. This paper aims to present and examine the existing stereotypes and judgmental thoughts about Iranian bisexuals, as well as critical...