Reading journeys · Ghazi Rabihavi
Follow a thread.
A book opens onto a conversation. A story finds another language. A play reaches another room.
Six ways through the writing and its record. Begin anywhere; each stop is a page of its own.
These are editorial reading routes. Publication, translation and performance credits stay with their individual records.
Abadan, and the war years.
A remembered childhood, the early collections, and later conversations about writing war.
Biography
Where the stories began
Abadan, family languages and his mother’s storytelling, as remembered in the childhood conversation.
Conversation
The voices of Abadan
Maryam Foumani’s Aasoo conversation, published in December 2024. An English guide leads to the Persian interview.
Collection record
Palm Tree and Gunpowder
The Persian collection and its Damoon imprint: summer 1359 in the Iranian calendar.
Collection record
Memoirs of a Soldier
An early Persian story collection. The publication recollection remains distinct from a checked edition imprint.
Conversation
Literature and war
Foumani’s conversation with Rabihavi took place in summer 2022 and was published by Aasoo in July 2023.
Scholarship guide
Before a single war narrative
Amir Moosavi’s 2026 English article. This guide follows the academic metadata and abstract, with links to the full source.
One story, several voices.
Follow Hofre from its collection record to a Swedish translation, a performed reading, and a critic’s response.
Collection record
From This Place
The Persian collection’s Mina edition is catalogued in Tehran, 1369 [1990]. Tavlan identifies it as Hofre’s source.
Story guide
The Hollow · Hofre
An English orientation to the Persian story, keeping its later web appearances separate from the collection’s date.
Translation guide
Hålan
The Swedish appearance in Tavlan, 2020, explicitly credits Forogh Hashabeiky’s translation from Persian.
Publication guide
Tavlan · the anthology
The Uppsala anthology’s publication and translation credits, with a link to its institutional PDF.
Recording guide
Hofre · a reading
Baha’oddin Morshedi’s Persian performance for Sedakhoneh, published 10 January 2021. The recording stays with its source.
Critical reading
Who kills whom?
Hossein Ateshparvar’s Persian close reading, published by Baang on 16 March 2023. The interpretation belongs to the critic.
A novel meets its readers.
Boys of Love through its publication history, named translations, critical responses and a French radio programme.
Work & editions
Boys of Love · publication history
Persian publications and translated editions share a work record while keeping their own dates, publishers and credits.
Edition folio
Boys of Love · in English
Poupeh Missaghi’s English translation, published by University of Wisconsin Press in July 2024.
Review guide
A violin inside the upheaval
Filip Noubel’s English review for Asymptote, 15 July 2024, responding to the English translation.
Edition folio
Les Garçons de l’amour
The French edition from Serge Safran, 20 August 2020, translated from Persian by Christophe Balaÿ.
Selection record
Prix Médicis · second selection
The French novel appears in the second foreign-novel selection on 2 October 2020. Selection is distinct from a prize victory.
Recording guide
Boys of Love · on the air in Lille
Nikola Delescluse’s French Paludes segment, linked by the Radio Campus Lille programme of 4 September 2020.
From the play to the stage.
Stoning and Voices in company records, with the translators, directors and programmes of particular productions.
Play record
Stoning
The work has distinct Amsterdam, San Francisco and London presentation records, each with its own credits.
Production record
Stoning · ReOrient 2001
Series One, 27–30 September, San Francisco. Hal Gelb directed; Ana Bayat, Gelb and Lucy Williamson are credited for translation.
Programme guide
Inside the festival programme
The printed ReOrient programme supplies the series dates and production credits, with an onward link to the original PDF.
Play record
Voices
A separate play in Golden Thread’s archive, with its own account of an answering machine and loneliness.
Production record
Voices · ReOrient 2000
Golden Thread records Hal Gelb’s production at EXIT Theater. The listed July–August dates describe the festival run.
Conversation
A play’s passage into London
Shahran Tabari’s interview report of 22 August 2002 follows Rabihavi’s discussion of Stoning and its earlier performances.
The words behind an image.
Different films, different responsibilities: a story outline, assistant direction, a screenplay and a documentary portrait.
Biography
Words made visible
A chapter on cinema, video art and collaboration, keeping Rabihavi’s different responsibilities in view.
Screen record
Chrysanthemums
Rabihavi’s initial story outline; Fereydoun Jeyrani’s screenplay; Rasul Sadr Ameli’s direction.
Screen record
Ey Iran
An assistant-direction credit for Rabihavi. Nasser Taghvai is credited as both director and writer.
Screen record
The Oak Tree
Ethan Jahan’s direction and Rabihavi’s screenplay. The source-specific years and running times remain visible.
Programme guide
The Oak Tree · Zurich programme
The 2018 festival document records the creative team; its 23-minute entry and 37-minute schedule remain distinct.
Documentary record
A Theatre of Truth
David Alamouti is the filmmaker and Rabihavi the subject. The filmmaker and UAL date and runtime differences are retained.
A writer, in conversation.
The independence of a character, the influence of other writers, and words addressed beyond the book.
Biography
What the reader can discover
The chapter follows Rabihavi’s remarks on craft, difficult characters and room for the reader’s interpretation.
Conversation
A character’s own life
Esfandiar Kusheh’s Persian Zamaneh interview, 13 February 2023, around Daniel and His Father.
Conversation
What a writer can change
The French Culture Papier questions and answers of 2 November 2020 distinguish the author’s replies from the appended appraisal.
Authored essay guide
No!
Rabihavi’s Persian antiwar prose, published by Baang on 28 May 2026. The English title is a finding aid.
Conversation guide
Radio Nebeshteh · the conversation
A written orientation to Arash Dabestani’s interview and Keyhan Khanjani’s separately credited literary commentary.
Recording guide
Radio Nebeshteh · the programme
The Persian episode was published 20 April 2020. Its 1:37:45 duration belongs to the complete programme.