Updated 7/20: Download the MP3: (High Quality) I remember when my cousin first moved to the United States 11 years ago at the age of 16. She had taken English class in Iran for years and knew the basics, so I thought that taking her out with my high school[…]
Iranican صدای
Mom vs. Ammeh
Updated: Download the MP3: (High Quality) Iranican Live is now also on Terrestrial Radio! Special welcome to our newest listeners from Radio Bamdad 1690AM Northern California! Join our co-hosts tonight @ 7PM PST on Radio Javan in exploring the complicated relationships between Mothers and Ammehs. We all know how the[…]
Gender Roles: What is (wo)manhood? Part II
Updated: Download the MP3: (High Quality) Iman, Nasim, Farzad, and guest: family and marriage therapist, Ms. Bolandi continue discussing specific roles expected from each gender: male and female. As a woman, I am tired of being expected to automatically know how to cook ghormeh sabzi and fesenjoon– why aren’t these[…]
Gender Roles: What is (wo)manhood?
Updated: Download the MP3: (High Quality) Everyday, we are bombarded with different images that illustrate gender inequality- whether it is through popular TV shows like, Sex and the City, or sports coverage, which rarely focus as much on women’s sports. Why has society established these specific gender roles for each of[…]
Racist Iranians II
Download the MP3: (High Quality) As a continuation of last week’s show, in part II, Iman, Nasim and two guests will be discussing the roots of racism among Iranians. Through laughter and jokes, our co-hosts bring up issues that many face as a result of their cultural backgrounds. Though racism is no[…]
Racist Iranians
BBC Persian conducted a poll recently to get people’s opinion about a case of an Iranian girl marrying an Afghan man. A significant portion of the responses were…eye opening! It seems based on some of the comments that Iranians can actually redefine racism! Download the MP3: (High Quality) Are Iranian[…]
Friends with Benefits II
For the first time, we are publishing a podcast on our off week to follow up the discussion that happened on our blog after our initial show here, recorded June 6th, 2011. Thank you for the 30+ comments. Download the MP3: (High Quality) Last week, we discovered that people engage in[…]
Friends with Benefits
Featuring licensed marriage and family therapist to explore whether you really can “benefit” more from your friendships! Download the MP3: (High Quality) The idea that being friends with benefits could evolve into something wonderful and romantic was first portrayed with Monica and Chandler. They started out as best friends, hanging out[…]
Visiting Iran
Download the MP3: (High Quality) What’s your favorite Airline/Route to go to Iran with and Why? Why are you going there? Family, Plastic Surgery, and Sight Seeing, are the motives, Iran is the destination and Iranican Live is the name of the radio show. We’re also covering Soghati ideas and[…]
Marriage & Divorce
Download the MP3: (High Quality) Facebook Causes Divorce, this article published two days ago states that 90% of divorces somehow involve facebook. That’s overstated though since our ways of communication are changing in that direction, with a bit of stretch it’s as if you say 90% of all divorces involve[…]