‘Freedom implies discoverable meaning in an act.’
– Frederick Turner
Shiva Rahbaran is a writer and researcher interested in the relation between freedom and art. She has explored this topic in a variety of different contexts ranging from contemporary English novel to post-revolutionary Iranian cinema and literature. She has published several books and articles on this topic.
Her latest book Iranian Cinema Uncensored was praised by the leading cultural critic Hamid Dabashi as ‘a beautiful read and full of joyous insights’.
Shiva Rahbaran is also a fiction writer. Her short story ‘Massoumeh’ won the 2016 Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Her novel My Name is Innocence will be published by Humanitas in 2025. Currently she is working on a novel about love and friendship during events that led to the Islamic revolution in Iran.
My Literary Agent
Peter Frasers + Dunlop
Lisette Verhagen
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The National Iranian Uprising and the Dilemma of the Left
In this article for the Greek Daily Ta Nea, Shiva Rahbaran explores the dilemma of the global Left in face of the recent uprising in Iran, the demand for a return to the pre-Islamic Revolution era and the call for international military intervention to topple the...
Iran – The Day After
In this article for the Greek daily Ta Nea , Shiva Rahbaran explores the fears and hopes of Iranians both inside the country and across the diaspora amid the recent wave of uprisings —uprisings that resulted in the deadliest crackdowns on street protesters in modern...
Iranian Cinema and Women’s Representation
In her latest article on women’s representation in Iranian Cinema, Shiva Rahbaran discusses how women’s visibility, modernity and cinema fed and were in turn fed by state-led policies during the Pahlavi era and how, after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Islamic...