Publications

In her latest article on women’s representation in Iranian Cinema, Shiva Rahbaran discusses how women’s visibility, modernity and cinema fed and were in turn fed by state-led policies during the Pahlavi era and how, after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Islamic...

In dieser Artikel zeigt Shiva Rahbaran wie Die Ermordung des iranischen Filmregisseurs Dariush Mehrjui eine Fortsetzung der Kettenmorde der Neunzigerjahre an der Intellektuelle und Künstler in Iran ist und bezeugt, dass die anti-moderne Nature des Regimes trotz allen...

In this article Shiva Rahbaran shows that it is no coincidence that filmmakers, actors and actresses have been important figureheads in the “Women, Life, Freedom” feminist uprising in Iran. For the country’s anti-modern theocratic regime, both cinema and women’s...

The novelist Nicholas Mosley saw humanity’s salvation at the confluence of love, faith, and technology. In this article, which appears as a postscript in Mosley’s posthumously published novel, Rainbow People, Shiva Rahbaran conveys how this correlation has been a...

In this postscript to Nicholas Mosley’s posthumously published last novel, Rainbow People, Shiva Rahbaran discusses the core preoccupation of Mosley’s oeuvre through interweaving his ideas with her personal account of their first meeting that resulted in a...

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...

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...

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...