About the Author

Eric Egan studied communications at Trinity College, Dublin, and earned an MA in Cinema Studies and a PhD in Iranian Cinema at Nottingham Trent University in England. He has published articles on the cinema of Iran, Pakistan, India, and Egypt, as well as on cultural policy and media in developing countries. He lives in Dublin, Ireland, where he teaches film studies at University College Dublin.

For Mage he is the author of The Films of Makhmalbaf: Cinema, Politics & Culture in Iran.