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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For over two years, TikToker Simin Yasmine (@siminyasmine) thought she was in a committed relationship, but the universe was playing the worst practical joke on her. She was actually a mistress for ...

Thousands enjoyed the music and annual tradition of the Winter Wonderland & Toy Giveaway for children and their families on Saturday, Dec. 14, sponsored by the nonprofit Simin Hope Foundation and the ...

Two of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival award winners landed North American distribution today. Sony Pictures Classics picked up Nader and Simin, A Separation, which won the festival's highest honor, the ...