Hooman Majd: 3/7/17

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Hooman Majd grew up the son of an Iranian diplomat. He talks with Brian about his experience as Iranian-American and muslim, how he began to write about Iran after a long career in the music industry and his identity under the Trump administration. Production note: this podcast was recorded in January soon after Trump's executive action banning immigrants and refugees from seven majority muslim countries entry into the U.S. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hey, this is the moment, a compliment. Thanks for listening.
0:15.0	Today's guest is Humon Maj.
0:18.0	And Humon Maj is a writer based in New York,
0:20.0	contributor to NBC News.
0:22.0	He's written for The Times, The Guardian, the New York,
0:25.0	and he's written for The Times, The Guardian, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair.
0:26.5	He has translated for Ahmedinajad famously
0:31.0	at the United Nations. He's a writer, author of the New York Times bestseller,
0:35.7	The Ayatollah Beggs to Differ. He wrote The Ayatollah's Democracy, and my personal favorite,
0:41.3	the Ministry of Guidance
0:42.7	invites you to not stay, which is about a trip
0:46.0	Humman took back to Iran with his young American wife
0:50.9	and their really, really young American son.
0:55.3	But beyond that, Human's career,
0:58.0	and so I have whomy here to talk about the world, but his life, which I've gotten a witness, and I'll tell you why,
1:08.6	is really one that has lived around the
1:15.0	lived around the world,
1:19.0	started out on one career,
1:21.0	ended up having to find another career when that business disappeared, and then kind of found
1:25.2	a third career.
1:26.8	And having citizenship in a couple of different places.
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