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Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Part 2

Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Part 1

Interview | From Oklahoma to Shahnameh: Daniel Nayeri, Author of Everything Sad is Untrue on Memory, Myth and Belonging

Poetry | Nizami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh, Part 6

Poetry | Nizami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh, Part 5

Speak Lesson 65 | Tārof at a Gallery

Interview | Growing Up Irooni – Tara Grammy, An Iranian Take on Identity, Comedy, and Being All Up in Your Business

Poetry | Nizami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh, Part 4

Speak Lesson 64 | Meeting New People

Poetry | Nizami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh, Part 3

Speak Lesson 63 | Meeting Up with Friends

Poetry | Nizami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh, Part 2

Poetry | Nizami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh, Introduction with Dr. Sahba Shayani

Speak Lesson 61 | Meeting on the Street

Culture | Attar's Parable of the Moths, Part 4

Culture | Attar's Parable of the Moths, Part 3

Speak Lesson 62 | Getting Attention

Culture | Attar's Parable of the Moths, Part 2

Interview | Money, Iranian-American Identity, and Romance: Chelsea Fagan on Building a Business and Writing a Political Love Story

Culture | Attar's Parable of the Moths, Part 1

Interview | Comedian Neema Naz on Iranian Parents, Comedic Hustle, and Finding His Voice

Interview | Growing Up Irooni – Yassamin Ansari, Congresswoman from Arizona, on Politics, Protest, and Persian Identity

Interview | Gissou Nia, Human Rights Lawyer, on Justice, Diaspora Identity, and the Power of Speaking Up

Interview | Babak Tafreshi on the Magic of the Night Sky

Interview | Naz Deravian on how she became the sabzé lady

Interview | Growing Up Irooni- Anna Eskamani and Doing The Good Work in the Face of Hostilities

Interview | Growing Up Neem-Rooni - Jasmin Mozaffari, Director of Motherland, on Identity in a Problematic Time

Poetry | Ibn Yamin's ān kas ké bedānad va bedānad ké bedānad, Introduction with Alan Eyre

Poetry | Hafez's barafshān, Part 5

Poetry | Hafez's barafshān, Part 4

Poetry | Hafez's barafshān, Part 3

Interview | Growing Up Neem-Rooni - Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! On Martyr, Trauma, and Collateral Damage

Poetry | Hafez's barafshān, Part 2

Poetry | Hafez's barafshān, Introduction with Fared Shafinury

Speak Lesson 76 | A Separation, Part 5

Poetry | Omar Khayyam's rendee deedam, Part 2

Speak Lesson 75 | A Separation, Part 4

Poetry | Omar Khayyam's rendee deedam, Introduction with Alan Eyre

Speak Lesson 74 | A Separation, Part 3

Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 6

Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 5

Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 4

Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 3

Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 2

Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Introduction with Persian Poetics

Poetry | Baba tāher's khoshā emshō, Part 2

Poetry | Baba Taher's khoshā emshō, Introduction with Yara Elmjouie

Speak Lesson 73 | A Separation, Part 2

Speak Lesson 72 | A Separation, Part 1

Poetry | Hafez's payāmé naseem, Part 6