Shiva Rahbaran was born in 1970 in Tehran. She left Iran for Germany in 1984, where she studied literature and political science at the Heinrich-Heine-Universtat Dusselorf. She continued her studies at Oxford University, where she was granted a Ph.D. in English literature. Nilou Mobasser is an Iranian translator currently living in England and an occasional contributor to the Index on Censorship.

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