Publications

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...

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...

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...

In dieser Artikel zeigt Shiva Rahbaran wie Die Ermordung des iranischen Filmregisseurs Dariush Mehrjui eine Fortsetzung der Kettenmorde der Neunzigerjahre an der Intellektuelle und Künstler in Iran ist und bezeugt, dass die anti-moderne Nature des Regimes trotz allen...

In this article, Shiva Rahbaran argues that the murder of the Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui is a continuation of the serial assassination (also called chain-murders) of intellectuals and artists in the 1990s Iran. She believes that this murder is yet another...

In this article Shiva Rahbaran shows that it is no coincidence that filmmakers, actors and actresses have been important figureheads in the “Women, Life, Freedom” feminist uprising in Iran. For the country’s anti-modern theocratic regime, both cinema and women’s...

The novelist Nicholas Mosley saw humanity’s salvation at the confluence of love, faith, and technology. In this article, which appears as a postscript in Mosley’s posthumously published novel, Rainbow People, Shiva Rahbaran conveys how this correlation has been a...

In this postscript to Nicholas Mosley’s posthumously published last novel, Rainbow People, Shiva Rahbaran discusses the core preoccupation of Mosley’s oeuvre through interweaving his ideas with her personal account of their first meeting that resulted in a...

In this short story Shiva Rahbaran explores the pain, anger and helplessness faced by a family caught in the throes of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and its bloody aftermath. She depicts the family’s experience through the eyes of three sisters who come from an...

In this interview Shiva Rahbaran depicts Abbas Kiarostami’s place in New Iranian Cinema and his relationship to the Islamic Revolution and its consequences of the industry. In this personal account, she shows how this doyen of auteur cinema deals with the Islamic...