Interviews
A guide to Ghazi Rabihavi in conversation, with original sources and language credits.
Published writing and conversations
The voices of Abadan
Interview · Persian · Aasoo · 10 December 2024
Language, lamplight, palm groves and working lives form an account of the world that entered his stories.
Ghazi Rabihavi · In conversation with Maryam Foumani
A character’s own life
Interview · Persian · Radio Zamaneh · 13 February 2023
Daniel and His Father opens a discussion of imagined people, readers, translation and the distance between a writer and his characters.
Ghazi Rabihavi · In conversation with Esfandiar Kusheh
Literature and war
Interview · Persian · Aasoo · Published 28 July 2023 · conversation held in summer 2022
A sustained conversation about returning to Abadan, writing against heroic war narratives and carrying displacement into fiction.
Ghazi Rabihavi · In conversation with Maryam Foumani
A novel and a nation in protest
Interview · French · Le Point · 13 November 2022
Maryam’s Smile becomes the starting point for a conversation about displaced families, withheld passages and the protests of 2022.
Ghazi Rabihavi · In conversation with Valérie Marin La Meslée
A voice becomes an image
Interview · Persian · Kayhan London · 3 May 2020
Rabihavi explains how a theatre text became Motherly, and how voice, images and uncertainty shaped the collaboration.
Ghazi Rabihavi
The lives a novel can recognise
Interview · French · Le Point · 8 October 2020
A Paris encounter around the French Boys of Love, joining the author’s account of his purpose with a journalist’s reading of the novel.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Two people who want to love
Interview · French · Têtu · 30 December 2020
A reported conversation about Boys of Love, the people it depicts and the assumptions a writer encounters when choosing that subject.
Ghazi Rabihavi
What a writer can change
Interview · French · Culture Papier · 2 November 2020
Reading influences, publication constraints and a belief in fiction’s capacity to alter how a life is seen.
Ghazi Rabihavi · In conversation with Culture Papier
Love and the limits of representation
Interview · French · Fild · Page published 31 December 2020 · separate copy line dated 20 November 2020
A French article places the novel’s love story beside the author’s discussion of silenced lives and abusive relationships.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Exile at the opening of a conversation
Interview · French · Heidi.news · 23 October 2020
The visible opening of a French encounter around Boys of Love, with the limits of the available text kept clear.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Radio Nebeshteh · episode thirteen
Interview · Persian · Radio Nebeshteh · Episode published 20 April 2020
An episode placing Arash Dabestani’s conversation with Rabihavi beside a critic’s discussion of his work.
Ghazi Rabihavi · In conversation with Arash Dabestani
A book still needs to reach someone
Interview · Persian · Journalism Is Not a Crime · IranWire conversation · 2 February 2018
Permission, money and attention form different obstacles in the passage from a finished manuscript to a reader.
Ghazi Rabihavi · In conversation with Mohammad Tangestani
What exile lets the stage say
Interview · Persian · IranWire · 9 September 2016
Around Shirin, a discussion of sexual taboo, self-censorship and the practical work of making theatre outside Iran.
Ghazi Rabihavi · In conversation with Mohammad Tangestani
Before the censor’s desk
Interview · Persian · Radio Zamaneh · Daftar-e Khak · Zamaneh page · 15 February 2011; Baang republication · 3 October 2023
A conversation about the moment a writer begins removing words before anyone has asked him to.
Ghazi Rabihavi · In conversation with Hossein Noushazar
Can anti-war language widen peace?
Interview · Persian · BBC Persian · Updated 30 January 2011 · page metadata records creation on 22 January
A broadcaster’s introduction to a filmed conversation about war, nonviolence and the reach of an anti-war voice.
Ghazi Rabihavi
A play’s passage into London
Interview · Persian · Radio Farda · Radio Azadi archive · 22 August 2002
Rabihavi discusses Stoning’s writing, translation and earlier performances while its London run is underway.
Ghazi Rabihavi · In conversation with Shahran Tabari
A prison letter reaches the stage
Interview · Persian · Radio Farda · Radio Azadi archive · 18 October 2001
A short broadcaster report of a London play based on Ahmad Batebi’s letter, with the relationship to an English repertoire title kept qualified.
Ghazi Rabihavi