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 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 ...

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.

Waite Hill -- Simin Gharib Naraghipour was a French teacher, TV reporter, leading volunteer and admired hostess. Naraghipour died Thursday, Dec. 29, at her home in Waite Hill from complications of ...

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 ...

Writer-director Asghar Farhadi's drama -- the first foreign winner of the Los Angeles Film Critics best screenplay award -- is vying for a foreign-language Oscar nomination for Iran. By THR Staff ...

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 ...

Simin Behbahani, who has died aged 87, was widely considered to be the greatest living Persian language poet, known throughout the Middle East and much of the world as the “Lioness of Iran”. She was ...