Shoura Hashemi works for the diplomatic service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna. She was born in 1982 in Mashhad, Iran, and spent the first years of her life in hiding with her politically active parents. The family fled to Austria in 1987 and was granted political asylum. Since September 2022, Shoura Hashemi has been documenting events in the context of the democracy movement in Iran and is involved as an activist and supporter of the feminist revolution.