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Iranian Cinema and Women’s Representation
In her latest article on women’s representation in Iranian Cinema, Shiva Rahbaran discusses how...
Shiva on Brian Crombie Radio Hour
In this interview Shiva Rahbaran talks about how the WLF uprising in Iran, triggered by the...
Interview in To VIMA
In this interview, Shiva Rahbaran talks to the leading Greek Sunday Newspaper TO VIMA about...
Judge at WeAreOne #Iran Shortfilm Festival
Shiva Rahbaran is a judge at the Persia Educational Foundation's "We Are One #iran Short Film...
BBC WORLD SERVICE – Julian Worricker’s WEEKEND Programme
In this BBC Weekend programme, Shiva Rahbaran discusses the continuing resistance of Iranian...
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – ‘Kommt Und Tötet Mich!’
In dieser Artikel zeigt Shiva Rahbaran wie Die Ermordung des iranischen Filmregisseurs Dariush...
‘Come and Kill Me!’: Killing Mehrjui and the Repeat of 1990s Chain-Murders
‘I am a protester! […] I am a victim of [your injustice]. … Who are you [to act] like ghosts...
Who’s afraid of Iranian Cinema? Women, Life, Freedom and the Power of Film
In this article Shiva Rahbaran shows that it is no coincidence that filmmakers, actors and...
BBC WORLD SERVICE – Julian Worricker’s WEEKEND Programme
In this interview, Shiva Rahbaran discusses the case of Jafar Panahi's release from jail and the...
BBC WORLD SERVICE – Julian Worricker’s WEEKEND Programme
Panel Guests, Shiva Rahbaran and Peter Tatchell, UK-based human rights and democracy campaigner,...
BBC WORLD SERVICE – Paul Henley’s WEEKEND programme
Shiva Rahbaran's Radio Essay on the 2022 Iranian Uprising 'Zan, Zendegi, Azadi', which was sparked...
BBC Interview on the detainment of the Iranian director Jafar Panahi.
Paul Henley interviews Shiva Rahbaran about the imprisonment of Jafar Panahi and other filmmakers...
My personal history of sormeh on BBC World Service
In Nassim Hatam’s BBC documentary, MY PERSONAL HISTORY OF SORMEH, Shiva Rahbaran talks about eye makeup, women’s resistance and identity in post revolutionary Iran.
Panel Discussion on Radio Mani
Against the background of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Mani Tehrani discusses with Shiva Rahbaran and Mirza Agha Asgari the effects of artistic and literary censorship on the cultural development of Iran.
Patricia Duffaud review of Iranian Cinema Uncensored in Wasafiri Magazine, Issue 94, Summer 2018
In this review Patricia Duffaud shows how Shiva Rahbaran investigates the evolution of New Iranian Cinema in the context of the 1979 Revolution through extensive interviews with Internationally celebrated filmmakers living and working in Iran.
Panel Discussion on BBC World Service
On Paul Henley's Weekend program on BBC World Service, Shiva Rahbaran discusses with Jacquelin...
BBC: Iranian protest movement against compulsory hijab
In a BBC article by Nassim Hatam, Shiva Rahbaran comments on the recent protest movement by...
In Partnership with God – On Nicholas Mosley
The novelist Nicholas Mosley saw humanity’s salvation at the confluence of love, faith, and...
Iranian Cinema and Women’s Representation
In her latest article on women’s representation in Iranian Cinema, Shiva Rahbaran discusses how...
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – ‘Kommt Und Tötet Mich!’
In dieser Artikel zeigt Shiva Rahbaran wie Die Ermordung des iranischen Filmregisseurs Dariush...
Who’s afraid of Iranian Cinema? Women, Life, Freedom and the Power of Film
In this article Shiva Rahbaran shows that it is no coincidence that filmmakers, actors and...
In Partnership with God – On Nicholas Mosley
The novelist Nicholas Mosley saw humanity’s salvation at the confluence of love, faith, and...
Saving Humanity, or How to Enter a Partnership with God
In this postscript to Nicholas Mosley’s posthumously published last novel, Rainbow People, Shiva...
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...
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...
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Nicholas Mosley – Impossible Object [1968]
In this article, Shiva Rahbaran, discusses the main concern of Nicholas Mosley’s novels by looking...
“Reading Nicholas Mosley“
In this article Shiva Rahbaran discusses the reception of Nicholas Mosley in the English-speaking...
Review of “The Walking”
In her review of Laleh Khadivi’s novel, The Walking, Shiva Rahbaran sees a poignant portrayal of...
An Interview with Jafar Panahi
In her interview with Jafar Panahi, Shiva Rahbaran explores the filmmaker’s image of himself as an...
Myth about Myths. An Interview with Amir Hassan Cheheltan
Amir Hassan Cheheltan, the celebrated Iranian novelist, speaks to Shiva Rahbaran about the tension...
The Lioness of Iran. An Interview with Simin Behbahani
Simin Behbahani, Iran’s most prominent poet and a two-time Nobel Prize nominee, speaks to Shiva...
Shiva on Brian Crombie Radio Hour
In this interview Shiva Rahbaran talks about how the WLF uprising in Iran, triggered by the...
Interview in To VIMA
In this interview, Shiva Rahbaran talks to the leading Greek Sunday Newspaper TO VIMA about...
BBC WORLD SERVICE – Julian Worricker’s WEEKEND Programme
In this BBC Weekend programme, Shiva Rahbaran discusses the continuing resistance of Iranian...
BBC WORLD SERVICE – Julian Worricker’s WEEKEND Programme
In this interview, Shiva Rahbaran discusses the case of Jafar Panahi's release from jail and the...
BBC WORLD SERVICE – Julian Worricker’s WEEKEND Programme
Panel Guests, Shiva Rahbaran and Peter Tatchell, UK-based human rights and democracy campaigner,...
BBC WORLD SERVICE – Paul Henley’s WEEKEND programme
Shiva Rahbaran's Radio Essay on the 2022 Iranian Uprising 'Zan, Zendegi, Azadi', which was sparked...
BBC Interview on the detainment of the Iranian director Jafar Panahi.
Paul Henley interviews Shiva Rahbaran about the imprisonment of Jafar Panahi and other filmmakers...
My personal history of sormeh on BBC World Service
In Nassim Hatam’s BBC documentary, MY PERSONAL HISTORY OF SORMEH, Shiva Rahbaran talks about eye makeup, women’s resistance and identity in post revolutionary Iran.
Panel Discussion on Radio Mani
Against the background of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Mani Tehrani discusses with Shiva Rahbaran and Mirza Agha Asgari the effects of artistic and literary censorship on the cultural development of Iran.
Panel Discussion on BBC World Service
On Paul Henley's Weekend program on BBC World Service, Shiva Rahbaran discusses with Jacquelin...
Kayhan London Interview on Farhadi’s Oscar Nomination
Mani Tehrani interviews Shiva Rahbaran about Asghar Farhadi’s success at the Cannes Festival and the Oscars.
BBC Interview on Farhadi’s Oscar Nomination 2017
Shiva Rahbaran comments on Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar nomination and his standing as a filmmaker both in Iran and globally.
Interview in Wasafiri
A short interview with Shiva Rahbaran about her writing and future plans.
Interview with Shiva Rahbaran on Life Writing in Wasafiri
Bobby Nayyar interviews Shiva Rahbaran as the Winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize on her experience as a writer.
BBC World Radio Interview (January 2016)
Shiva Rahbaran comments on the state of New Iranian Cinema and its development in light of...
BBC Interview: On the Iranian Nuclear Deal
Shiva Rahbaran comments on the Iranian Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) and its consequences for the government and the people of Iran.
Radio: Shiva Rahbaran on “Literatur nach der Revolution” (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg)
Shiva Rahbaran discusses the role of the author in Iran after the Islamic Revolution.
Lecture at SOAS on New Iranian Cinema
Lecture by Shiva Rahbaran on her book Iranian Cinema Uncensored: Contemporary Film-Makers Since the Islamic Revolution (I.B.Tauris, 2016).
“New Iranian Cinema is Dead. Long Live New Iranian Cinema” – Invited talk at conference
Shiva Rahbaran gives a talk on the past, present and future of New Iranian Cinema at the...
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Iran – Die Macht der Bilder“ [The Power of the Image] – Invited talk, Memmingen, Germany
Shiva Rahbaran gives a talk on the role of cinema as heavens of freedom in contemporary Iran.
Judge at WeAreOne #Iran Shortfilm Festival
Shiva Rahbaran is a judge at the Persia Educational Foundation's "We Are One #iran Short Film...
‘Come and Kill Me!’: Killing Mehrjui and the Repeat of 1990s Chain-Murders
‘I am a protester! […] I am a victim of [your injustice]. … Who are you [to act] like ghosts...
BBC: Iranian protest movement against compulsory hijab
In a BBC article by Nassim Hatam, Shiva Rahbaran comments on the recent protest movement by...
Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2016 Winners
The three winners of the NWP 2016: Niamh MacCabe (Fiction), Danielle Boodoo-Fortune (Poetry) and Shiva Rahbaran (Life Writing).
Interview on New Iranian Cinema in Kayhan London
Kamyar Behrang interviews Shiva Rahbaran about her new book Iranian Cinema Uncensored.
Iranian Cinema Uncensored Launch Invitation
Launch of Iranian Cinema Uncensored at Daunt Books Holland Park, London.
Patricia Duffaud review of Iranian Cinema Uncensored in Wasafiri Magazine, Issue 94, Summer 2018
In this review Patricia Duffaud shows how Shiva Rahbaran investigates the evolution of New Iranian Cinema in the context of the 1979 Revolution through extensive interviews with Internationally celebrated filmmakers living and working in Iran.
Review of Iranian Cinema Uncensored in First Things
Sohrab Ahmari reviews Shiva Rahbaran's Iranian Cinema Uncensored as a "fascinating collection of...
Review of Iranian Cinema Uncensored in Asian Affairs
Antony Wynn reviews Shiva Rahbaran’s new book on contemporary Iranian cinema.
“Dramatic Licence” – Review of Iranian Cinema Uncensored in TLS
Sara Jilani reviews Shiva Rahbaran’s new book on contemporary Iranian cinema.
Young Germany featuring Shiva Rahbaran‘s book on cinema 2012
In her article in Young Germany Angela Boskovich presents central insights from Shiva Rahbaran’s book on New Iranian Cinema.
Review of Iranian Writers Uncensored – TLS
Lucy Popescu reviews Shiva Rahbaran’s book Iranian Writers Uncensored in the Times Literary...
Review of Iranian Writers Uncensored – The Millions
Zach Pontz reviews Shiva Rahbaran’s book Iranian Writers Uncensored in The Millions. He highlights...
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Review of Jayegah-e Sokhan [The State of the Word] in Nimrooz London
The Iranian newspaper Nimrooz (London) reviews Shiva Rahbaran’s Jayegah-e Sokhan [The State of the Word. The Role of the Author in Iran after the Islamic Revolution].