IRNA - Iranian poet Forough-Ozzaman Farrokhzad under the pen name of Forough opened up a new chapter in the book of Persian female poets for courageously displaying emotions and feelings. Forough Farrokhzad (pronounced FOR-ugh Far-ROHK-zad) was born in Tehran on December 29, 1934. Her rise to fame was quite phenomenal if you realize her life ...

Signature- In 1978 my family left Iran with two maroon leather suitcases. Thered been trouble in Tehran for a while, but that year the trouble suddenly got worse. We werent sure how long it would last, but for now it seemed we should leave the country. There wasnt much time to pack, much less to plan. We flew to America, thinking wed wait out the violence ...

The Guardian- Fifty years after Forough Farrokhzads death, Ebrahim Golestan talks about his affair with the giant of Persian literature Forty miles south of London, in a quiet West Sussex village, lives a 94-year-old Iranian intellectual who has for half a century kept silent about his former lover, a giant of modern Persian literature who was killed ...

Financial Tribune- Influential poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967) will be commemorated today, February 12, on the occasion of her 50th death anniversary, at Charsou Cineplex in Tehran. Charsou in collaboration with Beethoven Music Center will hold the ceremony titled The One Like No Other, named after one of her famous poems, ...