A Theatre Production by Acid Attack Survivors A Report and Reflection
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acid attack, trauma, performance, visibility, arts
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"From believing in yourself to performance" by three acid attack survivors, Mohsen Mortazavi, Maryam Zamani, and Elham Soltani. with the honorary presence of the professional actress, Shima Khosh Akhlagh
directed by Javad Rahimi
executive producer: Payam Ahmadi
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Sona Kazemi, Mills College
Sona Kazemi’s BIO
Dr. Sona Kazemi is currently the Provost’s Research Justice at the Intersections Fellow at the Mills College in Oakland, California. From 2018 to 2020, Sona was the postdoctoral researcher of Migration Studies, Disability Studies, and Medical Humanities at the Ohio State University. Her research program is located in contradictions among transnational disability rights frameworks in the context of global and regional imperialism(s), as well as the proxy wars in the Middle East. Her postdoctoral projects concerns traumatized Yazidi refugees in diaspora and their disability consciousness as survivors of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the mental health of Iranian and Kurdish refugees in the United States who are the survivors of state terror and its implications for international security, Iranian women survivors of acid attack and their disability and feminist consciousness, and punitive limb amputation in Saudi Arabia and Iran. She is also completing a monograph, tentatively titled “Disabling Relations: Injured Bodyminds and Active Witnessing,” based on her dissertation and her two postdoctoral research projects. Sona is the Society for Disability Studies’ 2018 recipient of the honorable mention for the prestigious award of Irving K. Zola Award for emerging scholars in Disability Studies. Sona is currently the associate editor for the Global Ideas' Section at Review of Disability Studies, an International Journal.