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Del Beh Del

Del Beh Del

By The Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies

The Del-beh-Del Podcast is an extension of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State. Del Beh Del hopes to amplify the stories and experiences of community members, artists, intellectuals within the global community who might receive less mainstream visibility. Del Beh Del will highlight difficult or unprecedented topics such as the stigmatization of mental health issues, cultural obligations, class, nationalism, sexuality, gender, among many other equally important heart-to-heart conversations.
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Episode 6: Do-Rageh in Diaspora: Reflections on Multiethnic and Multiracial Identity in the Iranian Diaspora

Del Beh DelNov 01, 2022

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Episode 6: Do-Rageh in Diaspora: Reflections on Multiethnic and Multiracial Identity in the Iranian Diaspora

Episode 6: Do-Rageh in Diaspora: Reflections on Multiethnic and Multiracial Identity in the Iranian Diaspora

In this episode of “Del Beh Del: Heart-to-Heart Conversations with the Global Iranian Diaspora,” co-hosts Ariana Damavandi and summer intern Tania Jiroudi engage guests from the Bay Area Iranian diaspora community in a long overdue conversation about being half-Iranian, growing up between cultures, and some of the ways in which they do and don’t fit in.

This conversation with Jasmina Aliakbar (Guamanian, Filipina, and Iranian), Joseph Ara (Mexican and Iranian), Ariana Damavandi (Irish and Iranian), Nuri Jones (African-American and Iranian), and Ariana Tabrizi (Italian and Iranian), reveals some of more nuanced ways being Iranian is a negotiation and how a label like “Iranian American” is inadequate to capture the experiences and ongoing journeys that our guests have embarked upon.

Nov 01, 202257:05
Episode 5: Sounds of the Diaspora: Persian Pop in Tehrangeles, Part 2

Episode 5: Sounds of the Diaspora: Persian Pop in Tehrangeles, Part 2

Center interns Naazley Boozari and Samira Singleton guest host part two of our fifth episode, "Sounds of the Diaspora: Persian Pop in Tehrangeles" with Dr. Farzaneh Hemmasi, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto and author of "Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music," along with music archivist, co-curator of the compilation record Pomegranates, and professor, Arash Saedinia (Los Angeles City College). This fascinating episode explores the soundtrack of Iranian immigration, particularly in Los Angeles, before, during, and after the 1979 revolution. Our guests also discuss the ways that Persian pop music and its icons have shaped a generation, as well as how Persian pop in "Tehrangeles" has influenced music produced within Iran.

Nov 27, 202141:57
Episode 5: Sounds of the Diaspora: Persian Pop in Tehrangeles, Part 1

Episode 5: Sounds of the Diaspora: Persian Pop in Tehrangeles, Part 1

Center interns Naazley Boozari and Samira Singleton guest host part one of our fifth episode, "Sounds of the Diaspora: Persian Pop in Tehrangeles" with Dr. Farzaneh Hemmasi, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto and author of Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music, along with music archivist, co-curator of the compilation record Pomegranates, and professor, Arash Saedinia (Los Angeles City College). This fascinating episode explores the soundtrack of Iranian immigration, particularly in Los Angeles, before, during, and after the 1979 revolution. Our guests also discuss the ways that Persian pop music and its icons have shaped a generation, as well as how Persian pop in "Tehrangeles" has influenced music produced within Iran.

Nov 20, 202142:06
Episode 4: OUT in the Diaspora, Pt. 2
Jul 15, 202152:45
Episode 4: OUT in the Diaspora, Part 1
Jul 01, 202144:30
Episode 3: Mental Health Awareness and the Iranian Diaspora
May 11, 202134:10
Episode 2: Collective for Black Iranians

Episode 2: Collective for Black Iranians

In this episode, co-hosts Kimia Akbari and Jasmine Djavahery speak with co-founders of the Collective for Black Iranians, Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda and Alex Eskandarkhah about the necessity that gave birth to the Collective, and the work they are doing to make visible and audible the stories of Black Iranians both in Iran and in the diaspora. 


Thanks to Persis Karim, Ariana Damavandi, Shahriyar Najafgholizadeh, Evette Darensbourg, our sound engineer, for the production of this podcast, and Ariana Boostani for the music. 

Mar 08, 202142:21
Episode 1: Introduction

Episode 1: Introduction

In this pilot episode, co-hosts Kimia Akbari, Azar Hatefi Graduate Fellow, and Jasmine Djavahery, UC Santa Cruz student and Center intern, share a little about this new podcast. 

The Del beh Del: Heart-to-Heart Conversations with the Iranian Diaspora podcast is hosted and presented by the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University.

This unique podcast is aimed at telling stories, conversing with cultural trailblazers, and raising some of the issues that have been challenging for our global Iranian community to engage with in the past.

Hosted by two students affiliated with the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, Del Beh Del will be a unique opportunity to engage listeners with those who live outside the boundaries of Iran and make their homes, communities, and livelihoods in countries like the US, Canada, as well as on the continents of Europe, Australia, and Asia.

We seek to build community by sharing narratives and experiences that too often are less visible, and ones that focus on cultural warriors, thought leaders, and taboo-breakers who contribute to new iterations of "Iranianness."

The podcast will feature 4-6 episodes per year.

Special thank you to The Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, Persis Karim, Ariana Damavandi, Shahriyar Najafgholizadeh, Evette Darensbourg for the production of this podcast, and Ariana Boostani for the music.

Feb 04, 202108:39