Roqe - Ep #116 - Tahdig and NASA - Sahar Fatemi, Barmac Taleghani

A diverse edition of Roqe including feature interviews with Iranian-American NASA Project Manager, Barmac Taleghani, and the Iranian-British founder of “Tahdig Lover,” Sahar Fatemi. First, Sahar joins Jian from Nottingham England to talk about her journey from Isfahan to Britain as a teen, becoming a football analyst for the English Premier League in her early-20s, and now parlaying her lifelong love of cooking and Persian cuisine into a thriving and popular online venture focused on Iranian crunchy rice - tahdig. Then Barmac joins from Virginia to discuss developing technologies that can assist NASA to pioneer the future of space exploration. Barmac is a Project Manager at NASA who currently leads the development of a lunar crane that will aid astronauts in off-loading payloads from the lander to lunar surface. He moved from Iran in the midst of the 1979 revolution as a teenager and is living a dream as an engineer who was always fascinated by aeronautics. Plus the Roqe Team reads through Letters of the Week and shares opinions about Shaya’s bohemian clothing choices.