Editing Simin Behbahani (section)

==Early life and family==
[[File: Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah01.jpg|thumb|Board of governors of ''[[Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah|Association of Patriotic Women]]'', Tehran, 1922]]

Simin Behbahani, whose name at birth was Siminbar Khalili<ref name=":0" /> ({{langx|fa|سیمین بر خلیلی}})<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YLo43GsZnWoC&dq=simin+behbahani&pg=PR20 '''Behbahani''' was the last name of her first husband]</ref> (سيمين بر خليلی), was the daughter of [[Abbas Khalili]], a poet, diplomat, newspaper publisher, and editor of the ''{{Interlanguage link|اقدام (روزنامه)|lt=Aghdam|Fa}}'' (English: action) newspaper, and {{Interlanguage link|فخرعظمی ارغون|lt=Fakhr-Ozma Arghun|Fa}}, a poet and teacher of the French language.<ref name=":0" /> Abbās Khalili wrote poetry in both [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Arabic]] and he translated some 1,100 verses of [[Ferdowsi]]'s ''[[Shahnameh]]'' into Arabic. Fakhr-Ozma Arghun was one of the progressive women of her time and a member of ''Kānun-e Nesvān-e Vatan'khāh'' (Association of Patriotic Women) between 1925 and 1929. In addition to her membership of ''Hezb-e Democrāt'' (Democratic Party) and ''Kānun-e Zanān'' (Women's Association), she was for a time (1932) editor of the ''Āyandeh-ye Iran'' (Future of Iran) newspaper. She taught French at the ''Nāmus'', ''Dār ol-Mo'allemāt'' and ''No'bāvegān'' secondary schools in Tehran.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BIBLIOGRAPHY, Fakhr Uzmā Arghūn |url=https://poets.iranicaonline.org/bibliography/fakhr-%ca%bfuzma-arghun/}}</ref>