German Afghan vocalist Simin Tander represents a new sound in the European jazz landscape: mysterious, narrative, tenderly beautiful yet also powerful, playful and impulsive. Simin moves her audience ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. We end today with some very sad news. Today we remember our dear colleague Simin Farkhondeh. She was the Democracy Now! education director for ...

Simin Daneshvar’s first novel, Savushun, is one of the most powerful literary episodes in Persian fiction [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY – Much of the world’s attention was drawn to the confounding ...

The bells at the door tinkle, and the fashion designer Simin jumps up from a velvet bench and politely excuses herself. “My next fitting is here,” she says, promising to return to her life story a ...

EVEN as a child, she knew how poetry should sound. The rhythm of the rhyme her teacher gave her to recite—“I am a yellow rose, the Sultan of all the flowers, the Sultan of all the flowers”—was wrong.

A gripping moral and social drama set in present-day Iran, Asghar Farhadi’s follow-up to the fine About Elly lifts the director to the front rank of contemporary world directors, and should be ...

Iranian poet and women's rights advocate Simin Behbahani has died. Her work probed the social and political challenges that faced Iran after its Islamic Revolution. She was 87. Simin Behbahani was ...

The newly formed quartet of German-Afghani vocalist Simin Tander with Swiss-Swedish electric bass guitarist Björn Meyer, Tunisian violinist Jasser Haj Youssef and Swiss drummer Samuel Rohrer from ...

Iran’s national poet Simin Behbahani died Tuesday of heart failure at the age of 87, according to the country’s official news agency. Behbahani was an iconic figure of modern Persian literature, ...