On Jan. 26, 2024, 12:09 p.m. hamed:

@hamed Jan. 26, 2024, 12:09 p.m.

Simin Behbahani: She was a poet and activist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twice. She wrote in the classical Persian form of ghazal, but with a modern and critical perspective. She wrote about topics such as women’s rights, democracy, and war. She wrote poems such as “My Country, I Will Build You Again” and “Stop Throwing My Country to the Wind”