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Poetry | Monir Taha's meegan ké jangé jangé Intro

45m · Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation · 08 Mar 00:00

In this first lesson on Monir Taha's poem ‘meegan ké jangé jangé, میگن که جنگه جنگه’, we talk to Naz Deravian, Monir's daughter and author of the cookbook Bottom of the Pot, about the poem in general, the context in which it was written, and about the poet herself. 

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