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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
As modern Iran's first female novelist, Simin Daneshvar, who has died aged 90, knew a lot about adversity. Professionally, she had to make her way in a literary scene dominated by men; in her ...
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 ...