An Interview with Jafar Panahi

An Interview with Jafar Panahi

Aug 29, 2012 | Article

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...
The Lioness of Iran. An Interview with Simin Behbahani

The Lioness of Iran. An Interview with Simin Behbahani

Oct 1, 2011 | Article

Simin Behbahani, Iran’s most prominent poet and a two-time Nobel Prize nominee, speaks to Shiva Rahbaran about the greatest epic in history, Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, the nightmare of censorship and why Iran will eventually achieve democracy. Read...