German Afghan vocalist Simin Tander represents a new sound in the European jazz landscape: mysterious, narrative, tenderly beautiful yet also powerful, playful and impulsive. Simin moves her audience ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. We end today with some very sad news. Today we remember our dear colleague Simin Farkhondeh. She was the Democracy Now! education director for ...

The bells at the door tinkle, and the fashion designer Simin jumps up from a velvet bench and politely excuses herself. “My next fitting is here,” she says, promising to return to her life story a ...

EVEN as a child, she knew how poetry should sound. The rhythm of the rhyme her teacher gave her to recite—“I am a yellow rose, the Sultan of all the flowers, the Sultan of all the flowers”—was wrong.

The newly formed quartet of German-Afghani vocalist Simin Tander with Swiss-Swedish electric bass guitarist Björn Meyer, Tunisian violinist Jasser Haj Youssef and Swiss drummer Samuel Rohrer from ...