The idea for this roundtable emerged from a special session held at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) in Denver in December 2022. As nationwide protests swept over Iran, many MESA members voiced support for organizing a public conversation that addressed various aspects of the Woman, Life, Freedom (WLF, Zan, Zendegi, Azadi) uprising. We thank MESA president, Eve Troutt Powell, for supporting this last-minute addition to the program. We are also very grateful to IJMES editor, Joel Gordon, for publishing these essays and enabling ongoing conversations about the WLF movement.

此次圆桌会议的想法源于 2022 年 12 月在丹佛举行的北美中东研究协会 (MESA) 年会上举行的一次特别会议。随着全国范围内的抗议活动席卷伊朗，许多 MESA 成员表示支持组织一次公开对话涉及妇女、生命、自由（WLF、Zan、Zendegi、Azadi）起义的各个方面。我们感谢 MESA 主席 Eve Troutt Powell 在最后一刻对该计划的支持。我们也非常感谢IJMES编辑 Joel Gordon 发表了这些文章并促成了有关 WLF 运动的持续对话。