Iranian Cinema and Women’s Representation

Iranian Cinema and Women’s Representation

Nov 19, 2024 | Article

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...
Shiva on Brian Crombie Radio Hour

Shiva on Brian Crombie Radio Hour

Aug 22, 2024 | Interviews

In this interview Shiva Rahbaran talks about how the WLF uprising in Iran, triggered by the killing of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the Islamic morality police, united the nation across all gender, religion and ethnicity divides and quickly shifted from a protest...
Interview in To VIMA

Interview in To VIMA

Apr 21, 2024 | Interviews

In this interview, Shiva Rahbaran talks to the leading Greek Sunday Newspaper TO VIMA about Woman-Life-Freedom movement, the long history of women-led secular revolutions in Iran, and the possible consequences of the missile exchange between the Islamic regime and...
Judge at WeAreOne #Iran Shortfilm Festival

Judge at WeAreOne #Iran Shortfilm Festival

Jan 7, 2024 | News

Shiva Rahbaran is a judge at the Persia Educational Foundation’s “We Are One #iran Short Film Festival” 1100 films from 90 countries by men and women in support of Iranians’ #womanlifefreedom revolution and human rights convention are shown at...
BBC WORLD SERVICE – Julian Worricker’s WEEKEND Programme

BBC WORLD SERVICE – Julian Worricker’s WEEKEND Programme

Dec 30, 2023 | Interviews

In this BBC Weekend programme, Shiva Rahbaran discusses the continuing resistance of Iranian people and artists against the oppressive Islamic Regime despite the scant media coverage due to the world’s attention being veered off to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza....