Ghazaleh Golbakhsh is an Iranian-New Zealand writer, filmmaker and Fulbright scholar. Her first book of personal essays, The Girl From Revolution Road was published by Allen & Unwin after winning a CLNZ/NZ Society of Authors grant and she was also a contributing writer to the anthology Ko Aotearoa Tātou. Ghazaleh recently completed her PhD in Media and Communication.
In reviewing Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero, filmmaker Ghazaleh Golbakhsh contextualises Iran–US relations, censorship and the popularity of Iranian films.