Dr. Shokoufeh Sakhi is an independent scholar and researcher who is currently a research associate with Off-Site Ethnography of Post-revolution Iran, a project hosted by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, France. She has a doctorate in political science from York University. Her dissertation, Ethics and the Resistant Subject: Levinas, Foucault, Marx is an argument for the “co-primordiality of an ethical and survival subjectivity” and indispensability of the ethics of being-for-the other for what she calls an “effective resistance” against totalizing systems. Her study and research are rooted in and benefited from her experience of eight years of political imprisonment, from 1982 to 1990, under the Islamic Republic State of Iran.

Dr. Sakhi acted as Executive Committee Director (2013-2014) of the Iran Tribunal Foundation investigating the Iranian state’s crimes against humanity in the 1980s. She also testified as an ex-political prisoner at the Iranian People’s Tribunal hearings held at the Hague (2012).  

Among many documentaries, she participated in The Tree That Remembers, directed by Masoud Raouf, an award-winning NFB documentary film on the experiences of Iranian political prisoners in the first decade after the 1979 revolution.