Review of “The Walking”

Review of “The Walking”

Jan 7, 2013 | Article

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...
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...