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Podcast: Brian Crombie Radio Hour
Episode: Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 737 - Protests in Iran with Ava Homa and Goldie Ghamari
Description: Brian interviews two people to discuss the protests happening in Iran.Ava Homa is an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her debut novel "Daughters of Smoke and Fire", the story of a Kurdish-Iranian woman, won the 2020 Nautilus Book Award. Her bylines have appeared at the Globe and Mail, Literary Hub, BBC and Toronto Star. We talk about both her novel about Leila, who like Mahsa Amini (the woman whose death at the hands of the morality police created an uproar) is Kurdish-Iranian and we discuss gender and ethnicity and their role in what we see on the streets of...