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...
In this article, Shiva Rahbaran, discusses the main concern of Nicholas Mosley’s novels by looking at his acclaimed novel Impossible Object. In his novels Nicholas Mosley tries to address one question only: how can man attain freedom? His novels are in way chapters of...
In this article Shiva Rahbaran discusses the reception of Nicholas Mosley in the English-speaking world as a “novelist of ideas”, the tag of “unreadability” that comes with it and his tireless quest for finding a way to approach the question: “is freedom possible?”...
In her review of Laleh Khadivi’s novel, The Walking, Shiva Rahbaran sees a poignant portrayal of exodus and exile of a typical Iranian fate after the 1979 Islamic revolution. The novel, Shiva Rahbaran finds, captures the schizophrenic love-hate relationship between...
In her interview with Jafar Panahi, Shiva Rahbaran explores the filmmaker’s image of himself as an engagé film-maker – an artist who has a moral and social commitment, yet distances himself from all ideological and political propaganda. In Panahi’s eyes, the cinema in...
Amir Hassan Cheheltan, the celebrated Iranian novelist, speaks to Shiva Rahbaran about the tension between artists and intellectuals, the power of mysticism and the long-lasting effects of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Read...
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