The Iranian Maya Angelou Passes Away
She lived to the ripe old age of 87. She who Iranians lovingly called the Lioness of Iran. She who chronicled her people's politics, their beauty, their mundane and their extraordinary, their oppression and their plastic surgery, the landscape of their lives. She lived beloved and revered by her people, convinced of her own patriotism while her government branded her poetry to be treasonous. Simin Behbahani (her first husband's last name), born Simin Khalili (her father's last name) and at times published under Simin Khalatbari, was not ...
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