Habibian has also done NEH-funded research on iconic Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, resulting in the documentary short, Forugh Farrokhzad: Young Revolutionary Poetess of Tehran, which has been screened at the Library of Congress, at a gathering of women filmmakers in Tribeca, at the University of Sussex in England, at the CCHA conference in Santa Fe, and at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. Other directorial credits include her multimedia play Forugh’s Reflecting Pool, The Ugly Older Sister, as well as a production of The Invitation and Blessed Are the Meek at the off-off Broadway Expanded Arts Theater.