Massoumeh – The Story of an Iranian Family in Times of Revolution
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...
Where is the Revolution: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami
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...![Nicholas Mosley – Impossible Object [1968]](https://shiva-rahbaran.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/impossible_object_Nicholas_Mosley-600x675.jpeg)
Nicholas Mosley – Impossible Object [1968]
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...
“Reading Nicholas Mosley“
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?”...