Zahra Khosroshahi

Zahra Khosroshahi is a lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is currently working on her forthcoming monograph “Iranian Women Filmmakers: A Cinema of Resistance” (Edinburgh University Press). Previously, she was an SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and completed her doctorate at the University of East Anglia. Her PhD research focused on prominent Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad’s cinema. As well, Zahra is the co-founder of Thousand&One: an enterprise that supports women of colour in the workplace.

Contributions

Screening Love: The Forbidden in Rakhshān Banī-i‛timād’s Nargis

Before the narrative even begins, Rakhshān Banī-i‛timād’s Nargis (Nargess) of 1992 directly engages the theme of love. As the film…

Tracing The Tooba Character in Rakhshan Banietemad’s Cinema

Drawn out by Rakhshan Banietemad in 1985, the role of Tuba, the filmmaker’s most iconic character, was initially reserved for…