My quotes in The Tufts Daily, the school paper for Tufts University: “MIT Lecturer and Middle East Historian Pouya Alimagham said that burning hijabs has also become a form of political resistance against the Iranian regime. ‘[Hijab burning is] not necessarily a statement against religion, although for some it could be,’ Alimagham said. ‘It’s a rejection of the state. The state has made the hijab an emblem of its authority, so [protesters are] burning the emblem of the state’s authority in a way.'”
