We are Zoorkhaneh: Building Community through Ancient Persian Sport (ep. 13)-UW Global Sport Lab

Farnoush Djavaheripour is one of the only women who teaches the ancient Persian sport and practice of Zoorkhaneh (also known as Pahlavāni). Restricted to men within Iran, Djavaheripour is extending the practice to both diasporic and women and gender expansive communities alongside the University of Washington graduate student Sara Modjib Shirazi, who has founded a new non-profit called “We are Zoorkhaneh.” They share both their vision and the obstacles they face in conversation with Ron Krabill, Director of the Global Sport Lab. The Global Sport Lab, based in the UW's Henry M. Jackson School, is supported by over a dozen UW departments and schools and was founded in 2024. The Lab uses the lens of sport to explore the big challenges of our global world, such as inequity, politics, injustice, human rights, popular culture, democracy and the economy. Music credit: “Merci Kylian” by Laurent Dubois. Full song "Merci Kylian": music.apple.com/us/album/merci-ky…0482?i=1734841106 Music label: www.wotiproduction.com/music-1