Poetry | Omar Khayyam's rendee deedam, Introduction with Alan Eyre
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In this special shabé shehr episode, we are joined by Alan Eyre, the first (and last) ever Persian language spokesperson for the U.S. State Department. Alan has a little book with lines of his favorite Persian poetry, and he shares one of those poems with us in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Choyang Conversation? |
| 0:03.4 | Chayyams Rendi-Didam, Alan Eyre, thank you so much for being on the podcast today. |
| 0:39.4 | It is an honor. |
| 0:40.9 | Well, I went through our emails and you're, I got an email. Do you know when you first emailed me? |
| 0:48.8 | Five years ago? |
| 0:49.9 | No. Time flies. It was 10 years ago. November 2014. So you were my first email. You send me an email and you were like, |
| 0:59.5 | damn it, you're doing great work. And it was the first, I forwarded to my husband. I forwarded to my |
| 1:06.1 | business partner. I was like, oh my gosh, we are on to something. First I thought it was fake and I looked you up. And I have the emails. I have the receipt where I was like, oh my gosh, we are on to something. First, I thought it was fake and I looked you up. |
| 1:11.6 | And I have the emails. |
| 1:13.0 | I have the receipt where I was like, he has 29,000 followers on Twitter. |
| 1:18.7 | And I think this is actually him. |
| 1:20.5 | He's the State Department first Persian language State Department person. |
| 1:26.0 | I was so excited. It was my first, like, celebrity email that I was so excited. |
| 1:28.2 | It was my first, like, celebrity email that I received. |
| 1:32.0 | That was Dammit Gam 10 years ago. |
| 1:34.4 | So now it's Dammit Gam Mosulath, doubled. |
| 1:38.2 | Now you're like this massive corporation cranking out great stuff. |
| 1:42.0 | I know. |
| 1:42.4 | I'm still here. |
| 1:44.0 | But I feel like that was you know it was |
| 1:45.9 | such a big like encouragement for me at the time because you wrote to me about how it was helping |
| 1:52.3 | you to understand the culture a little bit. Oh it's fantastic. I still there's still stuff you put out |
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