In Homeland, students must attend compulsory classes on Islam, with strict Islamic dress codes and gender segregation applied in schools and universities.What is unique about today’s protests — much larger and more prolonged than those in 2019 — is that they have united nearly every section of society.Roulla says that in 2019 poorer sections of society protested fuel price rises, while unrest in 2009 centred on more “middle-class issues” of vote rigging.