"In Memory of " mural in Clarion Alley, San Francisco.
by Iranian-born artists Shaghayegh Cyrous and Keyvan Shovir,
clarionalleymuralproject.org/know-street-art-memory/
The three women in this Clarion Alley mural In Memory Of are familiar to anyone steeped in Iranian literary history.
Simin Daneshvar, Simin Behbahani, and Forough Farrokhzad are iconic figures in Iran, known for their poetry and fiction. In the West, Behbahani may be the best known: She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1997, and in 2008 was named the first recipient of Stanford’s Bita Prize for Literature and Freedom. She was affectionately called “the lioness of Iran.”
"In Memory of " mural in Clarion Alley, San Francisco.
by Iranian-born artists Shaghayegh Cyrous and Keyvan Shovir,
clarionalleymuralproject.org/know-street-art-memory/
The three women in this Clarion Alley mural In Memory Of are familiar to anyone steeped in Iranian literary history.
Simin Daneshvar, Simin Behbahani, and Forough Farrokhzad are iconic figures in Iran, known for their poetry and fiction. In the West, Behbahani may be the best known: She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1997, and in 2008 was named the first recipient of Stanford’s Bita Prize for Literature and Freedom. She was affectionately called “the lioness of Iran.”