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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...