For as long as I remember, I have had an avid interest in Iranian cinema. However, when I migrated from Iran, my interest began to grow—perhaps as a means for me to connect with the country that I had left behind as an adolescent and to come to terms with my ne..
Golbarg Rekabtalaei
Golbarg Rekabtalaei is a cultural historian of modern Iran, and the Middle East at large. She received her PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto in 2015. She is interested in the relationship between cinema, modernity, cosmopolitanism, urbanization, nationalism, and revolutions. Her book, Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, published in 2019 in Cambridge University Press's Global Middle East book series, focuses on the role of cinema in facilitating cosmopolitan imaginations and hybrid subjectivities from the early twentieth century to the 1979 revolution. Rekabtalaei is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at Seton Hall University.