Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation teaches you conversational Persian in a fun and casual manner in weekly lessons of about 15-20 minutes each. Check out our website chaiandconversation.com for more information.
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In this lesson, Leyla is joined by Omid Arabian of the YOUniversal Center for an overview of Attar's Conference of the Birds. Working through selected verses from across the poem, they trace the birds' journey from their first gathering to the moment thirty birds discover what they have been seeking all along. For the full lesson — including Omid's complete verse-by-verse guide, the Persian text,…
In this final part of the discussion of Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamat vatan , we go over the end of the poem in detail.
In this fifth part of the discussion of Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamat vatan , we go over the second-to-last part of the poem in detail.
In this episode, Leyla sits down with Sasha von Oldershausen — an Iranian American journalist on the news and politics team at Texas Monthly, and soon to be the New York Times' first-ever Texas culture reporter. This conversation is a little different from most episodes of Growing Up Irooni: it centers on a single, remarkable story. In her Texas Monthly article "The West Texas Days of the Exiled…
In this fourth part of the discussion of Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamat vatan , we go over the next six lines of the poem in detail.
In this episode, Leyla sits down with Yasmin Khan — the acclaimed British-Iranian-Pakistani food writer, activist, and author of *The Saffron Tales*, *Zaitoun*, *Ripe Figs*, and her newest cookbook, *Sabzi: The Beautiful World of Persian Vegetarian Cooking*. Yasmin takes us back to her childhood in Birmingham, where her mother — a Gilaki nutritionist from a small town near the Caspian Sea —…
In this third part of the discussion of Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamat vatan , we go over the next six lines of the poem in detail.
In this second part of the discussion of Simin Behbahani's dobāré meesāzamat vatan , we go over the first six lines of the poem in detail.
In this introductory lesson to Simin Behbahani's beautiful, important, and timely poem, dobāré meesāzamet vatan , we're joined by Dr. Sahba Shayani to talk about the general theme and meaning behind this poem.
In this episode, Leyla sits down with Hamid Rahmanian — the Iranian-American artist, filmmaker, and visionary behind some of the most ambitious Shahnameh projects of our time, including the illustrated Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings , the touring live productions Feathers of Fire and Song of the North , and most recently Rostam: Tales from the Shahnameh , a beautifully illustrated…
In this episode, Leyla sits down with Danesh Nosirvan — the Iranian-American creator known online for identifying perpetrators of public harm and holding them accountable through the court of public opinion. What began as a comedy career took an unexpected turn in 2021, when a single video calling out a child abuser went viral and reshaped the trajectory of his work entirely. Danesh shares the…
