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In this episode of Safar-e Ma’na | The Edge of Meaning, Iranian-American journalist, dialogue facilitator, and founder of Inner Rain Academy, خMahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh, speaks with Iranian women’s movement activist and researcher Mansoureh Shojaee about War in Iran, civil society, women’s movements, collective grief, democratic struggle, and the fragile work of sustaining hope in times of violence.This long-form conversation explores the history of the Iranian women’s movement, civic organizing, and the evolving role of civil society in the aftermath of political upheaval, repression, and war. Through personal memories and political reflection, Mansoureh Shojaee traces her journey from student activism and feminist organizing to decades of engagement with women’s rights, cultural institutions, and grassroots movements in Iran.The discussion then moves into the present: the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, the December uprising, media responsibility, populism, war, and the future of Iranian civil society. Mansoureh Shojaee reflects on mutual aid, care, community support, and the need to strengthen civic networks in times of repression, economic hardship, uncertainty, and collective trauma.At the center of the conversation is a simple but urgent question:How can a society continue to imagine freedom, justice, dignity, and repair when war, repression, poverty, and exile have exhausted its body?Mansoureh argues that hope is not optimism. Hope is effort. Hope emerges through action, participation, solidarity, and the continued willingness to work toward freedom even when outcomes remain uncertain.Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh is a narrative journalist, dialogue facilitator, and founder of Inner Rain Academy. She is also a researcher and analyst of gender issues, as well as a mentor and mindfulness educator for communities affected by crisis.She is the creator and host of Safar-e Ma’na (The Edge of Meaning), a bilingual platform for contemplative conversations on lived experience, social transformation, and the search for meaning in times of crisis, exile, war, and change.Through in-depth dialogue and reflective storytelling, her work explores memory, embodiment, ethics, resilience, and the human dimensions of social and political life.محبوبه عباسقلی‌زاده، اکو فمنیست معنا گرا، روزنامه‌نگار روایی، و بنیان‌گذار آکادمی باران است. او همچنین پژوهشگر، تحلیلگر و آموزشگر مسائل جنسیت برای جوامع درگیر بحران استاو پدیدآورنده و میزبان برنامه پژوهشی «سفر معنا» است؛ بستری دوزبانه برای گفت‌وگوهای تأملی درباره تجربه زیسته، دگرگونی اجتماعی و جست‌وجوی معنا در روزگار بحران، تبعید، جنگ و تغییرکار او از طریق گفت‌وگوهای عمیق و روایت‌گری تأملی، به کاوش در حافظه، بدن، اخلاق، تاب‌آوری و ابعاد انسانی زندگی اجتماعی و سیاسی است.