Nooruz Mubarak. I'm Amadal Yukpur and this is See Something Say Something.

This week we're celebrating, you guessed it, Norus, sometimes called the Persian New Year.

Specifically, we're going to be sitting down with some Afghan folk to chat about what the holiday means for them.

If you see something, you better, you better say something. they mean's for them.

So we're going to sit down with Minamakshudi, a Farsi teacher at the New York Persian Cultural Center, about the differences

between celebrating here in America and back home.

Then we're going to call up Muhammad Shafiq Hamdam, a political analyst and founder of the Afghan

Anti-Corruption Network, for a brief explainer on Nauru's from ancient times to modern

Afghanistan and America.

And finally, we're going to bring on our amazing producer, Renah Akbari, to talk about

Hefzine aesthetic.

So while researching for this episode, I realized that I didn't know a whole lot about Nauru's,

and there was a lot about Persian identity that I had to learn.

So I called up the New York Persian Cultural Center, and we set up an interview with Mina Maksudi, who teaches Farsi over there.

Hi, Mina.

Hi, how are you, Ahmed?

I'm very good. I'm very good.

Naruz Mubarak? Yes, Nauruq. That's correct. Tell us, what do you do at the Persian Center?

I am Farsi teacher. I'm teaching Farsi and Dari to Americans. Very cool. You also told me that

you recently came to America, right, about five years ago.

Yes, correct. Can you tell us about immigrating to the U.S.? Yes. Like, what do you want to know specifically?

Because a lot, I can write a book in there. Okay. So tell us about where you grew up in Afghanistan and what your first memory of America was.

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