Ghazi Rabihavi
Biography
At the age of 22 and at the time of the Islamic Revolution, Ghazi Rabihavi (born in Abadan, Iran, 1956) moved to Tehran. As early as the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq War, he published his first short stories and was subsequently imprisoned in Evin prison for political prisoners. After the Iranian Writers' Association, of which he was an active member, was banned, he organized the "Thursday Sessions" together with Houschang Golschiri, the leading author of the modern Persian novel, in which young authors are introduced to the art of storytelling. His short story The Pit caused controversy - he turns to screenwriting and collaborates with famed filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan. In 1994, he was banned from working after writing an article for Adineh magazine. The novelist finally went into exile in London in 1995, where he divided his literary activities equally between novels, theater and film.
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sons of love
The two young men Djamil and Nadji openly profess their love in a small town in Iran. From then on, in their everyday lives, they see themselves ruthlessly exposed to countless difficulties and hostilities, which a love that must not exist in a patriarchal and traditionally religious society has to withstand. Unable to give up their feelings for each other, the lovers flee to the next larger city, on to Tehran and finally to an Arab country, where they are confronted with social rejection similar to that at home. On their way towards broader and freer horizons, they can count on the support of many people. But will they ever get to a place together where their relationship and their feelings for each other will not be seen as disrupting the existing social order and thus despicable?
