Review · Baang
War writing beside another voice
Two reviews place Rabihavi in the continuing conversation about how fiction encounters war.
- Credited to
- Nasim Khalili
- Publication
- Baang
- Source date
- 11 December 2025 · 19 February 2026
- Published language
- Persian
- This page
- English source guide
English reading guide to the attributed original publication. The source’s critical judgments and reported statements remain those of its credited speaker or writer.
A different historical perspective
Reviewing Maryam Naseri’s Domino in December 2025, Khalili distinguishes the novel’s historical perspective from those of earlier Iranian war writers. She specifically recognises Rabihavi’s critical approach to that history, while arguing that Naseri’s work develops a viewpoint of its own. The reference concerns a literary comparison, rather than a separate review of one Rabihavi book. Source 1
Witness and the literature of war
Her February 2026 review of Zakarya Hashemi’s Open Eye and Open Ear places that account beside Ahmad Mahmoud’s The Scorched Earth and Rabihavi’s critical writing about war. She then broadens the comparison to international antiwar literature. The passage names Rabihavi’s body of work without selecting an individual title or claiming that all these books tell the same story. Source 2
Sources & credits
- Nasim Khalili · Maryam Naseri’s Domino
Baang review, 11 December 2025. Khalili distinguishes Naseri’s historical perspective from that of earlier war writers, expressly including Rabihavi. This is a comparison within a review of Naseri’s book.
- Nasim Khalili · Zakarya Hashemi and war writing
Baang review, 19 February 2026, of Zakarya Hashemi’s Open Eye and Open Ear. Its comparison names Rabihavi’s critical treatment of war; it does not identify a particular Rabihavi title.