Thousands Attend Iranian Poet Behbahani's Funeral
One of Iran’s most prominent poets, Simin Behbahani, has died in Tehran, where she had been hospitalized since August 6./ Thousands of Iranians, including prominent intellectuals, artists, and rights activists, have attended a funeral ceremony in Tehran for celebrated poet and women’s rights advocate Simin Behbahani. Behbahani, known as Iran’s lady of "ghazal" for her use of a traditional genre that employs a series of couplets, died on August 19 in a hospital in the Iranian capital of heart failure and respiratory problems. The two-time ...
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