http://firoozehdumas.com This is the podcast of Firoozeh Dumas, best-selling author of \"Funny in Farsi\". Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:45:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like most of you reading this, I feel the recession. I had spent the past few years building my career as a keynote speaker for educational conferences, something which I LOVED doing. The education sector has been hit very hard by the recession and many conferences have been canceled. Those ... http://firoozehdumas.com/hello-and-an-update/ Well, ABC decided to kill the FUNNY IN FARSI sit-com. I am so sorry and SO disappointed. The pilot was hilarious and had many, many fans at ABC but the decision came down to just one person, the president of ABC and he passed on it. What I am most sorry ... http://firoozehdumas.com/sad-news-for-fans-of-the-almost-sit-com-based-on-funny-in-farsi/ Thanks to all the fans who left comments after my last NPR piece (see the post below), I was asked to record the piece. Of course I had to leave out certain "bad" words in French to appease the FCC and our Puritan ancestors. (The deleted words were merde and ... http://firoozehdumas.com/i-was-able-to-record-the-npr-piece/ Here is the link to my latest NPR piece. (You have to cut and paste it.) There is no audio.  I couldn't record it because I use a bad word in it...merde. We can thank the Puritans for that! I hope you enjoy it! I had a lot of fun writing ... http://firoozehdumas.com/my-latest-npr-piece/ I just found out that the good folks in Concord, New Hampshire have selected my books for their Big Read. Go Concord, go! As some of you already know, I absolutely love these community reading programs and can not wait to see beautiful New Hampshire in the fall! I have ... http://firoozehdumas.com/thank-you-concord-new-hampshire/ First of all, I have to thank all the fans for the outpouring of goodwill regarding the pilot for FUNNY IN FARSI. I have received hundreds of emails on my Facebook account from readers ALL over the world, wishing me good luck. I feel like I have already won! The president ... http://firoozehdumas.com/update-on-the-pilot/ As some of you may have heard by now, ABC is shooting the pilot for FUNNY IN FARSI in Febuary 2010. Maz Jobrani has been cast as my father, the beautiful Marjan Neshat as my mother, and Hrach Titizian as my uncle. ABC is still deciding the rest of the ... http://firoozehdumas.com/abc-is-shooting-the-pilot-warning-do-not-say-this-in-an-airport/ (click here for article) Upper Saddle River residents Vicki Galow, left, and Elizabeth Koch, third from left, sharing some laughs with their fellow book club members. http://firoozehdumas.com/a-book-club-reading-my-book-i-have-proof/ I just interviewed Khaled Hosseini in Syracuse, New York. It was a lot of fun but more importantly, it gave Khaled a chance to talk about the Khaled Hosseini Foundation. According to Khaled, poverty is the biggest problem in Afghanistan and his foundation currently provides housing for the thousands of ... http://firoozehdumas.com/peanut-butter-and-jelly-fred-and-ginger-khaled-and-firoozeh/ Here's the video! It's an hour so don't watch it at work because I don't want to be responsible for what might happen... http://fora.tv/2009/09/10/Firoozeh_Dumas_Adventures_of_an_Iranian_American_Author http://firoozehdumas.com/video-of-interview-at-commonwealth-club-in-san-francisco/