Professors

  • Simin Behbahani
  • simin Simin Behbahani (Siminbar Khalili) was born in 1927 in Tehran, Iran, of literary parents. Her father, Abbas Khalili, writer and newspaper editor, had dozens of publications to his credit. Her mother, Fakhr Ozma Arghoon (Fakhr Adel Khalatbari), was a noted feminist, teacher, writer, newspaper editor, and poet.

    Simin began writing poetry at the age of fourteen and published her first poem at the same age. She used the "char careh" style of Nima, a renowned poet of Persian history, and subsequently, turns to "ghazal", a free flowing, and poetic style similar to the Western "sonnet". She contributed to a historic development in the form of the "ghazal", as she added theatrical subjects and daily events and conversations into this style of poetry.

    The "ghazals" of Simin Behbahani have a unique style, which defines her one of a kind and well distinguished in her style of poetry. Simin Behbahani has expanded the range of traditional Persian verse forms and produced some of the most significant works of Persian literature in the twentieth century.

    She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1997. She was also awarded a Human Rights Watch-Hellman/Hammet grant in 1998, and similarly, in 1999, the Carl von Ossietzky Medal for her struggles for freedom of expression in Iran.
  • Poetical Works:
  • Dubarah misazamat vatan (Los Angeles, CA. : DBF Records, 2003), Sound Recording with Darioush.
  • Yad-i ba`zi nafarat (Tihran: Nashr-i Alburz, 1999)
  • Nigarah-'i gulgun : kaghazin jamah’ha va afzudah’ha (Los Anjelesis : Intisharat-i Shirkat-i Kitab, 1998).
  • Simin Bihbahani : dar rah-i gustarish va afarinish-i awzan-i tazah  ([S.l.] : Tuka, 1993).
  • Kaghazin Jamah ( San Jose, Calif. : Nashr-i Zamanah, 1992).
  • An mard, mard-i hamraham (Tehran: Zavvar, 1991).
  • Chilchiragh : majmu`ah-'i shi`r, 1335-1336 (Tehran: Zavvar, 1991).
  • Dasht-i arzhan (Tehran: Zavvar, 1991).
  • Jay-i pa : majmu`ah-'i shi`r, 1325-1335 (Tehran: Zavvar, 1991).
  • Khatti zi sur`at va az atash (Tehran: Zavvar, 1991).
  • Marmar (Tehran: Zavvar, 1991).
  • Rastakhiz: majmu`ah-'i shi`r, 1342-1352 (Tehran: Zavvar, 1991).
  • Guft va shunudi ba Simin Bihbahani, Hamid Musaddiq, ed. Nasir Hariri (Babul : Kitabsara-yi Babul, 1989
  • Marmar (Tehran: Zawwar, 1989).
  • Guzinah-'i ash`ar (Tehran: Murvarid, 1988).
  • Khatti zi sur`at va az atash (Tehran: Zuvvar, 1983)
  • Rastakhiz: majmu`ah-i shi`r (1342-1352) (Tehran: Kitabfurushi-i Zavvar, 1983).
  • Khatti zi sur`at va az atash (Tehran: Zuvvar, 1981).
  • Khatti zi sur`at va az atash: majmu`ah-'i ghazal, 1360-1352 (Encino, Ca. : Ketap Corp., 1980-1988).
  • Darvazah’ha-yi nur: majmu`ah-i shi`r, ed. Zhalah Naziri (Tehran: Zhalah Naziri, 1971)
  • Marmar (Tehran, Kitabfurushi-i zavvar 1963)
  • Works on Simin Behbahani:
  • A cup of sin : selected poems. 
    Author: Bihbihani, Simin.; Milani, Farzaneh.; Safa, Kaveh.
    Publication: Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 1999
  • Tarannum-i ghazal : bar’rasi-i zindagi va asar-i Simin Bihbihani.
    Author: `Abidi, Kamyar.; Bihbihani, Simin.
    Publication: Tihran : Nashr-i Kitab-i Nadir, 2000
  • Zani ba damani shi`r: Jashn’namah-i Simin Bihbihani.
    Author:     Dihbashi, `Ali.
    Publication:     Tihran : Mu'assasah-i Intisharat-i Nigah, 2004
  • Darbarah-'i hunar va adabiyat: guft va shinudi ba Simin Bihbihani, Hamid Musaddiq.
    Author:     Bihbihani, Simin.; Musaddiq, Hamid.; Hariri, Nasir.
    Publication:     Babil : Kitabsara-yi Babil, 1989
  • Gahvarah-'i sabz-i afra : zindagi va shi`r-i Simin Bihbihani.
    Author:     Abu Mahbub, Ahmad.; Bihbihani, Simin.
    Publication:     [Tehran] : Nashr-i Salis, 2003
  • Guft va shunudi ba Simin Bihbahani, Hamid Musaddiq.
    Author:     Hariri, Nasir.
    Publication:     Babul : Kitabsara-yi Babul, 1989
  • Simin Bihbahani: dar rah-i gustarish va afarinish-i awzan-i tazah. Author: Nuh, Nusrat Allah.
    Publication:     [S.l.] : Tuka, 1993
  • Bargi az kitab-i `ishq didar ba Simin Bihbihani.
    Author:     Zira`ati, Nasir.; Bihbihani, Simin.
    Publication:     Los Angeles, CA : Nashr-e Ketab, 1997 Visual Material : Videorecording : VHS tape

 

 

 

 

 

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