Profiles In Resilience: The Activist
Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
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30-Oct-2025
Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist and women's rights activist living in New York. She shares her story of resilience, from how she has coped with being forced to leave Iran because of her outspoken opposition to the regime to surviving multiple assassination attempts while living in exile in the United States. She reflects on how community and speaking out have made her feel more brave and less alone, and how the women of Iran inspire her to keep fighting.
The Profiles in Resilience series, produced by the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative (AANSRI), spotlights individuals in the national security community who have faced significant hardships or experienced especially challenging circumstances in the course of their work, and, importantly, what lessons in resilience they can draw from those experiences.
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