The solo dance piece, “Zeynab-The Revolt of the Hungry” unearths, remembers and re-embodies the erased story of Zeynab Pasha, a destitute peasant from Tabriz in Azarbaidjan / West Iran, who emerged as the leader of the early 20th-century women's bread riots. Zeynab not only inspired women to organise and rebel against autocratic rulers who used famine as a weapon against the masses, she also played a pivotal role in other civil movements of the period. Although her extraordinary story has been systematically erased and overwritten from contemporary Iranian history, her memory and legacy endured through oral traditions of Tabriz’s people, especially through song and storytelling. The solo dance piece “Zeynab- The Revolt of the Hungry” is based on these orally transmitted stories. Developed as part of the MFA- project “Remembering Memories of Resistance” at the University of Gothenburg, this solo dance piece excavates an important chapter in the history of people’s resistance through movement. The choreography weaves together elements of Kathak and Naqali—storytelling techniques from India and Iran. Set to the evocative sounds of the Zarb, traditionally accompanying Naqali and narrating stories of male royal heroes, the solo reappropriates these male heroic forms to celebrate the enduring legacy of Zeynab and the resistance of women, the peasantry, and oppressed people.