Video Interviews

Esfandiar Baharmast

Esfandiar Baharmast

Esfandiar Baharmast is a retired Iranian-American football referee best known for supervising two matches during the 1998 FIFA World Cup held in France.

Roya Hakakian

Roya Hakakian

Roya Hakakian; born 1966 in Tehran, Iran is an Iranian-American poet, journalist and writer living in the United States.

Dr. Mark Changizi

Mark Changizi is an Iranian-American theoretical neurobiologist, science writer, and author.

Tanaz Eshaghian

Tanaz Eshaghian

Tanaz Eshaghian is an Iranian-American documentary filmmaker

Maz Jobrani

Maziar Jobrani is an Iranian-American comedian and actor.

Rudi Bakhtiar

Rudi Bakhtiar

Rudi Bakhtiar (Rudabeh Bakhtiar) is the first Iranian American journalist to anchor a prime time news hour in the United States, called “CNN Headline News Tonight”.

Dr. Soroosh Sorooshian

Soroosh Sorooshian is an Iranian-American distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California Irvine and Director of the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing.

Leila Vaziri

Leila Vaziri

Leila Vaziri is an Iranian-American swimmer, the 2007 world champion and a former world record holder in the 50 m backstroke.

Firouz Naderi

Dr. Firouz Naderi

Firouz Michael Naderi is an Iranian-American scientist and the Director for Solar System Exploration at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Saba Valadkhan

Dr. Saba Valadkhan

Saba Valadkhan is an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University.

Nader Engheta

Dr. Nader Engheta

Nader Engheta is an Iranian-American scientist who has made contributions to the fields of metamaterials, transformation optics, plasmonic optics.