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 ...

Simin Behbahani, a poet known as the lioness of Iran and for championing women's rights, has a message for the men and women of her nation: "Don't give up the fight for freedom." And, as she told ...

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.

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 Academy Award-winning Iranian courtroom drama took best film, best director and best screenwriter, as well as best editor. By Gavin J Blair Asghar Farhadi’s Nader and Simin, a Separation was the ...

Directed and produced by Morteza Atash-Zamzam, the Iranian feature ‘Simin’ has been accepted into the screening program of the 10th edition of Jagran Film Festival in India. The event is slated for 18 ...