Press
Press reports, profiles and historical announcements about Ghazi Rabihavi, with named writers and original sources.
Attributed sources
The reading reaches a German news desk
News · epd · London dateline · taz · epd dispatch · German · 7 October 1997
A short contemporary dispatch reports Look Europe!’s first London reading as a response to suppression of expression.
Escaping Voices · a London invitation
News · Exiled Writers Ink · organiser · Exiled Writers Ink · Eventbrite · English · Announced event · 15 September 2026, 7–9.30 pm
An organiser’s programme names Rabihavi among writers sharing work and reflecting on living between languages.
A director remembers the first story
Profile · Uncredited report · Rasoul Sadr-Ameli interviewed by Fereydoun Jeyrani · Cinema Ideal · from ISNA / Cinema Museum · Persian · 12 September 2021
Sadr-Ameli’s career recollection explicitly credits Rabihavi with the story that became Chrysanthemums.
A bookseller’s work around the novels
News · Baang · uncredited staff item · Baang · Persian · 21 May 2021
A report about Goethe–Hafis’s bookselling recognition also documents Payam’s publication of Gisu and Maryam’s Smile.
A new route to Persian books
News · Baang · uncredited staff item · Baang · Persian · 31 January 2022
A publishing notice describes Goethe–Hafis / Payam’s online Persian book catalogue and ordering channel.
A publisher brings books into a campaign
News · Baang · uncredited staff item · Baang · Persian · 13 January 2023
A report on Payam’s public campaign also names three Rabihavi novels in its publishing programme.
A writer names his literary company
Profile · Marzieh Negahban Marvi · interviewing Mohammadreza Aryanfar · Iran Book News Agency · Persian · 25 July 2025
Mohammadreza Aryanfar names Rabihavi among the Iranian writers who matter to his reading and practice.
A southern landscape in words and pictures
Profile · Uncredited feature · Hamid Pourbahrami and other named speakers · Radio Zamaneh · Persian · 27 December 2021
A feature on Hamid Pourbahrami’s artwork brings Rabihavi’s recollection of water buffalo into its account of southern lives and landscapes.
A literary journal away from the capital
Profile · Negar Omidi · with contributions by Farhad Keshvari and Hossein Atashparvar · Radio Zamaneh · Persian · 10 February 2022
A journal profile names Rabihavi among the literary figures connected with Siah Mashq and offers context for its criticism of his stories.
A programme entry for the repertoire
News · Persian Awards · uncredited programme entry · Persian Awards · Iran Festival programme · English · Programme labelled Iran Festival 2025 · exact event date absent
The festival archive preserves a programme entry headed Ghazi Rabihavi’s Works, without a detailed session description.
A critic speaks about a generation
Profile · Baang’s editorial introduction · talk by Faraj Sarkohi · Baang · Persian · 6 December 2025
An editorial introduction to a Faraj Sarkohi talk connects Rabihavi’s work with war, fractured narration and attempts to silence writers.
History and invention in a Paris reading
News · Afsaneh Khakpour · Tribune Zamaneh · credited to Iran Liberal · Persian · Article signed 25 February 2024 · posted 4 March 2024
Khakpour’s account describes a Naakojaa book discussion, performed passages and the author’s explanation of historical research and imagined dialogue.
A London play in an Italian newspaper
News · Uncredited · il manifesto newsroom · il manifesto · Italian · 30 September 1997 · newspaper edition
A short contemporary theatre item places Look Europe! within the international response to Faraj Sarkohi’s detention.
Books waiting to appear
News · Uncredited · IBNA newsroom · Iran Book News Agency · Persian · 21 August 2010
An Afraz announcement records the proposed publication of Maryam’s Smile and Boys of Love in Iran.
A manuscript finds another country
News · Amir Mosaddegh Katouzian · Radio Farda · Persian · 25 October 2011
Abbas Maroufi discusses books denied publication in Iran and names Boys of Love among the manuscripts reaching publishers abroad.
Remembering a translator’s work
Profile · Malu Halasa · Abdolkarim Soroush · hosted obituary · English · 21 March 2012
Malu Halasa remembers Nilou Mobasser’s work between literature, journalism and public expression, including Look Europe!
Around the Thursday table
Profile · Alireza Akbari · conversation with Naser Zeraati · Shahrvand · Persian · 6 July 2017
Naser Zeraati remembers stories read aloud, publishing disagreements and the group that formed around Houshang Golshiri.
Love and Uprising · London
News · Exiled Writers Ink · organiser · Exiled Writers Ink · English · Announced event · 2 December 2019
An evening announcement brings Boys of Love into a programme alongside voices from Baghdad’s Tahrir Square.
Literature with roots in the air
Profile · Emma Rotermund · conversation with Madjid Mohit · taz · German · 4 October 2022
Sujet’s publisher discusses writing between cultures, beside a Bremen reading announcement for Söhne der Liebe.
A translator approaches a generation
Profile · Al-Araby Al-Jadeed · uncredited interviewer · Al-Araby Al-Jadeed · Arabic · 1 March 2023
Ahmad Heidari describes his developing engagement with Rabihavi’s writing within a conversation about Arabic translation.
Maryam’s Smile · a Paris bookshop invitation
News · Naakojaa and Baang · uncredited staff · Naakojaa · Baang · Persian · Notice · 4 November 2023; announced event · 12 November
A dated invitation to meet Rabihavi and discuss Maryam’s Smile at Naakojaa’s Paris bookshop.
Stories, music and two Salento libraries
News · Francesco Oliva · Corriere Salentino · Italian · 26 April 2024 · announces 27 and 29 April encounters
A programme for encounters in Lecce and Presicce places Le quattro stagioni iraniane beside readings, music and interpretation.
A story, a photograph, a screening
News · Corriere Salentino · editorial staff · Corriere Salentino · Italian · Notice · 8 June 2024; announced event · 12 June
The Distilleria De Giorgi programme connects the Italian collection with Kaveh Golestan’s photography and Fairy Lights.
The translator’s own creative practice
Profile · Rebecca van Laer · conversation with Poupeh Missaghi · The Creative Independent · English · 31 October 2024
The English translator of Boys of Love speaks about research, form and resisting received narratives in her own work.
Novoli · after the reading
News · Roberto Pagliara · Corriere Salentino · Puglia News 24 · Italian · Report · 10 January 2025; event · 9 January
A retrospective local report follows a presentation of Le quattro stagioni iraniane and its discussion of freedom and censorship.
Readers bring their own war memories
News · Mohammad Hossein Nikoupour · Iran Book News Agency · Persian · 13 January 2025 · report of a completed gathering
A Shiraz discussion of Rabihavi’s work becomes a meeting between literary interpretation and the audience’s recollections of war.
The south as a literary landscape
News · IBNA · interview with Seyed Kazem Qoreyshian-far · IBNA · Persian · 13 June 2025
A Khuzestan writer places Rabihavi among those who drew distinctive subjects from the south.
Two publications taking shape
News · Baang · publication desk; individual bylines uncredited · Baang · Persian · 13 March and 11 July 2022
Contemporary announcements follow Boys of Love into German and Tragedy of a Monarchy into print.
Stories in the pages of a censorship debate
News · Uta Ruge · taz · Index on Censorship · German · 29 March 1995 · 7 May 1997
Two short newspaper introductions document separate appearances of Rabihavi’s fiction within international discussions of punishment and censorship.