Nirah Shirazipour
Nirah Shirazipour is the producer of EyesInfinite Films and a partner in the EyesInfinite Foundation.
Nirah graduated in 2004 from UC Santa Cruz as a cultural anthropologist with a regional focus on the Middle East. She has written ethnographies and poetry on topics ranging from the roots of religious intolerance, to the relations between Israel’s defense industry and the military industrial complex of the United States.
Nirah has traveled to India to explore various experiments in intentional community, and she has taught at the Life Education Center in Auroville, India.
After studying Permaculture Design at The Farm in Tennessee during the spring of 2005, she worked for BUSTAN on a number of projects concerned with fostering sustainable development in the Negev desert of Israel and in Palestine.
As an activist, she has worked with the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz, and she has co-lead a delegation to Israel/Palestine with the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), where she linked up with Eyes Infinite Films.
Nirah has spent most of the past two years working in Israel and Palestine, producing the Art and Apathy Documentary Project.