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Commentary: ‘Funny in Farsi’
firoozehdumas2024-04-29T20:13:10+00:00April 20, 2004
Iran does not abide by international copyright laws, which means that foreign books get translated and sold without permission from, or payment to, authors. Commentator Firoozeh Dumas heard that there were 19 versions of the latest Harry Potter book on the Iranian market. She didn’t want her own book to be translated badly, so she hired her own translator. It’s called Funny in Farsi.
muses and metaphors
firoozehdumas2024-04-29T20:13:10+00:00Tweeted Verse Of The Day
April 5, 2011
By @firoozehdumas:
My Aunt Fatima’s kitchen: rice cooking, stews brewing, onions frying, tea’s ready. Come in you’re just in time to eat, always.
Commentary: Out of Work
firoozehdumas2024-04-29T20:13:10+00:00March 29, 2004
Nearly 2 million people were laid off in 2003, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. One of them was the husband of commentator Firoozeh Dumas. She is the author of the book Funny in Farsi.
Commentary: Immigrant Christmas
firoozehdumas2024-04-29T20:13:10+00:00December 25, 2003
Commentator Firoozeh Dumas moved to Southern California from Iran in 1972. Her family didn’t celebrate Christmas, but they watched the Bob Hope Christmas special on TV every year. Her parents always laughed with the laugh track at the jokes — and then asked her to translate them. She got them all, except the golf jokes. She is the author of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America.
Commentary: Possible War Against Iraq
firoozehdumas2024-04-29T20:13:10+00:00March 10, 2003
In Morning Edition’s ongoing series of commentaries on the subject of possible military action against Iraq, commentator Firoozeh Dumas says France’s opposition to U.S. military action in Iraq is for the first time making her, an Iranian woman, more popular among her American friends than her French husband.
wait wait… don’t tell me!
firoozehdumas2024-04-29T20:13:10+00:00Bluff The Listener
November 3, 2012
Our panelists tell three stories about The New York Times going all out to maintain its reputation.
wait wait… don’t tell me!
firoozehdumas2024-04-29T20:13:10+00:00Who’s Carl This Time?
March 9, 2013
Carl Kasell reads three quotes from the week’s news: The Chatty Senator; The Worm and The Dear Leader; and Fly the Friendly and Knife-y Skies. We’re playing this week with Paula Poundstone, Roy Blount Jr., and Firoozeh Dumas.
wait wait… don’t tell me!
firoozehdumas2024-04-29T20:13:10+00:00Bluff the Listener
March 9, 2013
From NPR and WBEZ-Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME!, the NPR News quiz. I’m Bill Kurtis, filling in for Carl Kasell. We’re playing this week with Paula Poundstone, Roy Blount Jr., and Firoozeh Dumas.