Dr. Simin Daneshvar, the creator of Suvashun, passed away in Tehran on March 8, 2012. After a period of illness, Daneshvar - an Ianianacademic, novelist, fiction writer and translator died at the age of 90, ISNA reported. Simin Daneshvar was born in 1921 in Shiraz. She is the first Iranian woman who professionally wrote the story in the Persian ...

Before the Islamic revolution, the two countries traded, quietly cooperated on defense projects and enjoyed some cultural ties.Few remember today that a celebrated Iranian author, who some consider to be IransErnest Hemingway, traveled to Israel and wrote a book about his visit. This is a story of how Jalal Al-e Ahmad's visitcame about. In 1961,...