Stories & extracts
Stories and extracts by Ghazi Rabihavi across languages, periodicals and anthologies, with publication and translation credits.
Published writing and conversations
A Commemorative Photograph
Story · Persian · Incident at the Central Workshop · Damoon, Tehran · 1358 (1979–80) · scanned collection
A refinery worker detained for bringing a camera explains his wish to photograph the workers beside the installation they built.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Fairy lights
Story · English · Iranian.com · 19 October 2005
A woman waiting for a taxi speaks to a silent companion, moving between present arrangements and memories of family violence.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Lady Rose
Story · English · Iranian.com · 8 August 2005
An exhausted narrator pursues police cars while remembering the woman whose disappearance has shaped his life.
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White Rock · anthology appearance
Story · English · Strange Times, My Dear · contents record · 2005 anthology
The English anthology contents place Rabihavi’s White Rock in Prose: Part Three, among contemporary Iranian writers.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Apparition
Story · Persian · Baang · also Radio Zamaneh and Avaye Tabeid · 29 August 2023 · earlier appearance 2012
A plumber appeals to an image on a damp wall after his repair work becomes entangled with a neighbourhood’s belief in a miracle.
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White Rock · Persian story
Story · Persian · Avaye Tabeid 29 · earlier BaghDarBagh post · Autumn 1401 / 2022
Children watch a photographer and armed men prepare an execution, with a white stone becoming part of the apparatus.
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David
Story · Persian · also published in German · Baang · taz · 22 July 2022 · German appearance 7 May 1997
A censor’s deferential report to a ruler turns restrictions on art into an increasingly elaborate monologue.
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Hula Hoop
Story · Persian · Avaye Tabeid 15 · Summer 1399 / 2020
A speaker recalls the beginning of war, salt gathering and an object found among wreckage, addressing a companion through memories of displacement.
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Badri’s Night
Story · Persian · Avaye Tabeid 20 · Summer 1400 / 2021
Beside the river, a mother and son wait differently for a man whose bloodstained shirt returned without his body.
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The Plunderer
Story · Persian · Avaye Tabeid 16 · Autumn 1399 / 2020
A man denies being a looter while explaining to an imagined listener how he entered a shop during unrest.
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Fitneh
Story · Persian · Baang · also BaghDarBagh and Avaye Tabeid 22 · 10 March 2025 · earlier traces 2010 and 2021
A kiln worker’s night with Fitneh opens onto a landscape transformed by war, mourning and the passage of time.
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My First Lovemaking
Story · Persian · Baang · 14 July 2025
A first-person encounter in a guarded garden is told through sensory detail, desire and the danger of discovery.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Five Short Narratives
Story · Persian · Baang · 20 April 2025
Five compact narratives move from a refugee journey and a girl’s school dress to grief, animal resistance and an older woman’s remembered scene.
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The Hollow
Story · Persian · Baang · earlier Iranboom appearance · 14 March 2023 · earlier appearance 2012
A dead soldier speaks from the place where he was buried, imagining recognition by those who think he has disappeared.
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Musa
Story · Persian · Baang · 28 January 2024
News of Musa’s death reaches workers waiting for a military governor’s speech, interrupting their uncertain conversation.
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Incident at the Central Workshop · story
Story · Persian · Baang · 1 May 2026
Ahmad visits the injured Teymur in hospital, with the encounter bringing the workshop accident and his own unease back into view.
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Maryam and Mona
Story · Persian · Baang · 5 December 2022
A mother gives Maryam repeated instructions to hold her younger sister’s hand on the way to school, turning care into an urgent refrain.
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Flowers and Boots
Story · Persian · Baang · 8 January 2026
A falling flowerpot interrupts a confrontation in the street, leading soldiers into a building and towards an elderly woman’s room.
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Hasti’s Bangles
Story · Persian · Baang · 18 December 2022
Family voices remember Hasti’s delight in birthday bangles and the plans surrounding a day of prayer and play.
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In the Plain, on the Way
Story · Persian · BaghDarBagh · 18 April 2007
A family crosses a salt plain while fleeing a burning city, carrying water, grief and disagreement about the son left behind.
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Cry
Story · Persian · Baang · 26 January 2026
A dead speaker asks the living to open the body bag so that an unfinished declaration of love can be heard.
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Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Arabic story
Story · Arabic · translated from Persian · Al-Araby Al-Jadeed · earlier Avaye Tabeid appearance · 15 February 2025 · earlier appearance Summer 2023
Asif cycles through moonlit palm groves under the threat of patrols while his wife waits awake for his return.
Ghazi Rabihavi · Translation: Mohammad Hamadi
Hålan
Story · Swedish · translated from Persian · Tavlan · Uppsala University · 2020
The Swedish translation begins with a dead soldier’s question about why nobody knows that he has become a martyr.
Ghazi Rabihavi · Translation: Forogh Hashabeiky
White Rock · exiled ink!
Story · English · exiled ink! 10 · Autumn-Winter 2008
An English magazine appearance of the story in which children observe cameras, armed men and the preparation of a hanging.
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The Prey
Story · English · published translation · exiled ink! · Winter 2005
A speaker welcomes a newly captured creature to freedom while recalling war, hunting and the violence carried into another life.
Ghazi Rabihavi · Translation: Nilou Mobasser
Ein weißer Stein
Story · German · taz · 29 March 1995
The German newspaper story follows children watching a photographer and the assembly of gallows beside a white stone.
Ghazi Rabihavi
The Tragedy of a Monarchy · two fragments
Extract · Persian · Avaye Tabeid 27 · Summer 1401 / 2022
Two published fragments put the King into exchanges with a Teacher and the Queen, bringing authority into both public argument and private discomfort.
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The Masculine Law · published scene
Extract · English · published translation · exiled ink! 10 · Autumn-Winter 2008
In He Did Love Me So Much, an older woman speaks to her brother after the sale of her late husband’s house has left her without a home.
Ghazi Rabihavi · Translation: Bita Mafizadeh
Daniel and His Father · extract
Extract · Persian · Baang · 9 May 2024
A disturbing dream opens a novel fragment in which a narrator observes Daniel, his father and the fragile routines of neighbours and care.
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Gisu · extract
Extract · Persian · Baang · 25 September 2020
Ardeshir’s walk is interrupted by a man whose imitation of a gun turns fear into an uncertain negotiation.
Ghazi Rabihavi
White rock · Index on Censorship
Extract · English · bibliographic record · Index on Censorship 24(2) · March 1995
A separately identified 1995 periodical contribution, with its own DOI and pagination, precedes the later anthology and magazine appearances.
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The Iranian Four Seasons · Index on Censorship
Extract · English · bibliographic record · Index on Censorship 21(3) · March 1992
A two-page periodical contribution with an homage to Gholam Hossein Saedi, distinct from the Persian collection’s edition history.
Ghazi Rabihavi
David · Index on Censorship
Story · English · bibliographic record · Index on Censorship 26(2) · March 1997
An English periodical appearance with its own date, page range and source record, separate from the German and later Persian publications.
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Gol Khanum · Siah Mashq
Story · Persian · bibliographic record · Siah Mashq 18 · Noormags index · Tir–Mordad 1399 / summer 2020
A five-page contribution indexed under Rabihavi’s name in the eighteenth issue of Siah Mashq.
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Slide · an archived fragment
Extract · Persian · BaghDarBagh · archived author category · 9 December 2010
A short archived passage moves past a framed theatrical photograph into a disordered bedroom.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Eight Stories by New Iranian Writers
Story · Persian · anthology record · Ketabnak · anthology listing · Original publication year not established
A collective short-story volume from the Thursday sessions, with Rabihavi’s contribution connected to The Hollow.
Ghazi Rabihavi · one of eight contributors
Marthiyat al-Hawa · Arabic anthology
Story · Arabic · reported anthology appearance · IBNA · interview with the anthology translator · Interview published 6 September 2020
The translator reports a Rabihavi story in the antiwar section of a fourteen-writer Arabic anthology published in Basra.
Ghazi Rabihavi · anthology contributor
Baran 19–20 · a story appearance
Story · Persian · publication announcement · Asar · Baran quarterly announcement · Publication date not stated in the announcement
An announcement of Baran’s combined nineteenth and twentieth issue names Rabihavi in its fiction section.
Ghazi Rabihavi · named story contributor
The Mosque
Story · Persian · Memoirs of a Soldier · Autumn 1360 (Iranian calendar) · Qoqnus edition
An old mosque attendant’s cigarettes carry a request the soldiers around him have scarcely understood.
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The Body
Story · Persian · Memoirs of a Soldier · Autumn 1360 (Iranian calendar) · Qoqnus edition
A soldier hitching a ride in the rain finds a covered body and a death certificate whose explanation the wounds contradict.
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A Foggy Day
Story · Persian · Memoirs of a Soldier · Autumn 1360 (Iranian calendar) · Qoqnus edition
A borrowed jeep, a search for milk and two photographers lead the soldiers towards an absence in the fog.
Ghazi Rabihavi
In Their Camp
Story · Persian · Memoirs of a Soldier · Autumn 1360 (Iranian calendar) · Qoqnus edition
The soldiers’ casual visit to a crowded displacement camp turns into a conversation about responsibility and escape.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Encounter
Story · Persian · Memoirs of a Soldier · Autumn 1360 (Iranian calendar) · Qoqnus edition
On his last evening away from the front, a young soldier talks with a captain about work, love, patriotism and the fear of dying.
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A Ballad of Love · the Mina narrative
Story · Persian · A Ballad of Love · Mina edition · Autumn 1371 [1992] · Mina edition
An old woman’s boat journey with a boy returns her to a forced marriage, a musician’s songs and a love she must reconsider.
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Mordad, at the Foot of the Kilns · reading
Story · Persian · Mordad, at the Foot of the Kilns of the South · Autumn 1358 (Iranian calendar) · Yashar edition
A child carrying wet bricks describes the kiln workers, his grandmother and the life he imagines beyond the heat.
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Heights of Fire
Story · Persian · Incident at the Central Workshop · 1358 (1979–80) · scanned collection
A young refinery worker brings home his permanent entrance pass as his family mourns an aunt whose life was marked by an industrial fire.
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Beggar Named Khalil
Story · Persian · Incident at the Central Workshop · 1358 (1979–80) · scanned collection
During a refinery night shift, Morad recalls a fellow worker’s arrest while the narrator keeps asking about the lump at his temple.
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When the Smoke of War Was Seen in the Sky · reading
Story · Persian · When the Smoke of War Was Seen in the Sky · Autumn 1359 (Iranian calendar) · Yashar edition
A village boy goes looking for his brother at the front, carrying his dying grandmother’s request through a landscape transformed by war.
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Makineh · the water pump
Story · Persian · Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Summer 1359 (Iranian calendar) · Damoon edition
The theft of a new water pump changes a palm-growing family’s future and draws a boy into his missing father’s responsibilities.
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Strike
Story · Persian · Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Summer 1359 (Iranian calendar) · Damoon edition
A refinery worker prepares to cross a strike while his daughter’s silent scrutiny turns the family room into a place of political argument.
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Goltaj and Isa’s Solitude
Story · Persian · Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Summer 1359 (Iranian calendar) · Damoon edition
A gravely ill woman asks her husband to take her to the river while their jasmine tree gathers memories of the life they share.
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Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Persian story
Story · Persian · Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Summer 1359 (Iranian calendar) · Damoon edition
Asaf carries a sack of tea through a palm grove at night while his pregnant wife waits and a frightened gendarme follows the sounds.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Overcoat
Story · Persian · Palm Tree and Gunpowder · Summer 1359 (Iranian calendar) · Damoon edition
Two friends leave a café without paying and celebrate their small triumph until the cold exposes what one of them has forgotten.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Les Lampions
Story · French · Apulée 8 · Les Grandes Espérances · 18 May 2023 · issue publication
The French appearance of Cheraghani, beginning on page 79 of Apulée’s eighth annual volume.
Ghazi Rabihavi · Translation: Julie Duvigneau
Maryam’s Smile · archived extract
Extract · Persian · BaghDarBagh · Khalil Paknia’s archive · 16 November 2010
Mourning outside gives way to a hospital hall, where women search the rows of beds for their men.
Ghazi Rabihavi
Boys of Love · archived extract
Extract · Persian · BaghDarBagh · Khalil Paknia’s archive · 8 May 2010
An intimate act of facial care changes the narrator’s wish to demand an apology.
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Wet Journey · archived extract
Extract · Persian · BaghDarBagh · Khalil Paknia’s archive · 11 July 2012
An impossible infant encounter turns a smile into a threat to the narrator.
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