Niloufar Nematollahi (IR)

Born in Esfahan and raised between Iran and Belgium, Niloufar is a writer and organiser whose
practice alternates between dance floors, white cubes, archives, oil fields, and barricades. She has
predominantly written on Palestinian solidarity in the Netherlands as well as the political imaginary
of prominent labor insurrections in Iran and the broader region. Mainly through interviewing DJs,
musicians, ravers, and party-organisers not only in Tehran but also the Iranian diaspora, Niloufar
has also conducted extensive research on the politics of Tehran’s growing electronic dance music
scene. Niloufar co-founded KAVIR, a collective that brought together experimental visual artists
and musicians from Iran and Belgium, and ASHOOB, a party collective foregrounding revolutionary
sounds from the margins. She is also an editor at the internationalist socialist magazine, Jacobin
Nederland.