The recent uprisings across the Middle East have once againhighlighted the important role the internet is playing in fosteringsocial and political change. At Small Media Foundation werecognise the power of “new media” but we also believe that weneed to broaden our horizons and acknowledge the ongoingstruggles of “old media.”After reading the many other reports about censorship in Iranwe recognised an urgent need to look beyond the internet andthe press and examine the impact that state censorship is havingon other cultural spaces as well. This report, which focuses onthe censorship of literature, music, cinema and theatre in theIslamic Republic of Iran, is our attempt to capture and describethe restrictive forces that have been increasingly exerting theirweight on these cultural spaces since the disputed presidentialelection of 2009, with a particular focus on the winter of 2010.