Interview | Big Love Fierce Juju on Openly Discussing Uncomfortable Topics as an OBGYN
Dr. Shieva Ghofrany is an OBGYN better known as Big Love Fierce Juju on instagram, where she posts daily videos about topics like pregnancy, female hormones, stds, really all that good stuff that does...
8 Juni 202238min
Interview | Payam Banifaz on His Journey to Not Becoming a Lawyer
If you've been anywhere near Instagram in the last couple years, you will have come across Payam (also known as Peter) Banifaz's amazing videos depicting growing up in an Iranian American household wi...
1 Juni 202237min
Interview | Melody Moezzi on The Rumi Prescription
Melody Moezzi is most recently author of the book The Rumi Prescription, in which she talks about how the poetry of Rumi became a lifeline for her, helping her to gain wisdom and insight in the face o...
25 Maj 202249min
Interview | Reza Aslan on Raising Neem-Roonis
(Originally published May 12th 2020) In this Raising Neem-Roonis edition of Chai and Conversation, we talk to author, commentator, producer, professor, and many other hat-wearer Iranian-American Reza ...
18 Maj 202230min
Interview | Caspian Chef on Returning to His Iranian Roots After Decades of Assimilation
In this Growing Up Irooni we talk to Omid Roustaei, better known as the Caspian Chef. In this conversation, we discuss the process of coming to the United States on his own and figuring out his own pa...
11 Maj 202258min
Poetry | Saadi's bani ādam Part 3
In this final part of the discussion of Bani Adam by Saadi, we go over the last two lines of the poem, and review the entire poem in its entirety as well.
31 Jan 202211min
Poetry | Saadi's bani ādam Part 2
In this lesson, we'll go over the first part of the poem bani ādam and learn the individual words and phrases of this section of the poem.
23 Jan 202218min
Poetry | Saadi's bani ādam Intro
In this poetry episode, we go over one of the most famous poems of the Persian language, bani ādam, by the poet Saadi. We will learn about Saadi and what made him such a unique voice, and then we'll g...
9 Dec 202126min
