Stanford University 2008 and UCLA 2006
Simin Behbahani was surely a renaissance woman. Within the net of her tightly woven words,
she has captured the reality of the Iranian experience during one of the most challenging times in its history,
proving that the darkest of nights can produce the most luminous of poets.
سیمین بهبهانی
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/march5/simin-030508.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simin_Behbahani