Interview | Nixta Taqueria's Sara Mardanbigi Makes Contact with the Motherland
Nixta Taqueria is an award winning taqueria in Austin coowned by today's Growing Up Irooni guest Sara Mardanbigi. She owns it together with her husband Edgar Rico, who she recently took on a month lon...
25 Apr 202348min
Interview | Firoozeh Dumas on Funny in Farsi, 20 Years Later
I’m so excited to share with you today my interview with Firoozeh Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi. Funny in Farsi came out when I was in college, and it’s almost hard to remember what a huge huge deal...
12 Apr 202339min
Poetry | Monir Taha's meegan ké jangé jangé Intro
In this first lesson on Monir Taha's poem ‘meegan ké jangé jangé, میگن که جنگه جنگه’, we talk to Naz Deravian, Monir's daughter and author of the cookbook Bottom of the Pot, about the poem in general,...
8 Mar 202345min
Interview | Moj Mahdara on the Iranian Diaspora Collective
This interview with Moj is the first I've done for the Growing Up Irooni series since the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16th. So much has changed since then for Iran and especially for the Iranian...
25 Jan 202354min
Interview | The Real Tara Joon
The Real Tara joon is a social media content creator, which is not our general interviewee target. But, she has amassed a massive following on Tiktok, with almost 1 million followers, and even though ...
24 Aug 202251min
Interview | Bahador Alast on Viral YouTube Success and the Interconnectedness of Languages
Bahador Alast is a mohandes, or engineer, by day, but he has over 278 thousand subscribers on Youtube following a niche that he’s been able to fulfill and thrive in so well- comparing languages to one...
17 Aug 202243min
Interview | Arian Moayed on the True Purpose of Art, and Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds
I’m so excited to share with you all my conversation with Emmy award nominated actor Arian Moayed- he really needs no introduction, but you probably have seen him as Stewy on Succession, Kian on love ...
20 Jul 202238min
Interview | Back Home Beer on Rediscovering the Tradition of Iranian Beer
I’m so excited about sharing today’s interview with Zahra Tabatabai, the woman behind the Persian inspired beer brand Back Home Beer. You might have seen her instagram or Twitter profile by now- she b...
13 Jul 202230min
