Roqe Ep. 292 - We Need to Deprogram Hate - Sonita Alizadeh, Roundup, Remembering Lily Afshar

A brand new edition of Roqe that kicks off with Jian’s opening audio essay entitled, We Need to Deprogram Hate, that is a lament for the current state of the world and how we have become prisoners of the algorithms in our social media feeds. Also on this episode, a feature interview with Afghan rapper and activist, Sonita Alizadeh, live in the Roqe Studio, who joins Jian to talk about the plight of undocumented Afghan refugees in Iran and the latest threat of deportation from the Islamic Republic regime. Plus, Pegah is back for the Roqe Roundup to discuss the IRI Foreign Minister’s visit to the UN today, the absurd sentencing of journalists Elaheh and Niloofar in Iran, and more. And finally, we pay tribute to the late Iranian-American guitar virtuoso Lily Afshar, and replay our interview with her on Roqe from September, 2020.