Very happy to announce that today on 20th June, 2017, my Iranian student, Atoosa Bahadori from Women's Studies defended her thesis and was awarded her Ph. D. So this was my last student from the 2012 batch and hence the last of the Mohicans. She has done an interesting work on Cyber feminism in Afghanistan and how women who were suppressed here created an alternate movement in cyberspace. Now I do not see any other student submitting their thesis soon for my other students in History and Women's studies are at an infancy level of writing few chapters or doing data collection and it is going to take some time before any of them submit their Ph. D. It has been a very emotional journey with Atoosa and learning with her about Afghanistan and Iran as well. A strong Feminist from Iran who is a very active Web blogger she opened the society of both Iran and Afghanistan before my eyes and I learnt much during this period about women in these two societies. We only come to know what the media tells us but the ground reality is often very different. I do not read Persian and she opened a new world of women in these two countries who are writing about Women's issues in Persian on the net and are very actively involved. It is amazing to see the resilience of women in these two countries and their ability to question and make the best of a situation that is so restricting and attempt to bring about some kind of change.
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