In the third episode of When I Lived There, podcast host Jen Miller interviews Iranian-American Shaul Bakhash about his life in Iran. Shaul was born in Tehran in 1936 to a family of Jewish merchants. He studied abroad in America and the United Kingdom, graduating from Harvard and getting a PhD from Oxford. He worked as a journalist for most of his professional career in Iran, with a brief stint as a university professor toward the end of his time living there. Shaul would remain in Iran to see both the downfall of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution. He recently retired from George Mason University where he was a professor of history.

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Iran, Episode 3

In the second episode of When I Lived There, podcast host Jen Miller interviews Andreina Figueira about her day-to-day life growing up in Venezuela. Andreina was born and raised in Caracas, which is Venezuela's capital. She came to the United States in 2013 to study interior design, and she attends the School for Visual Arts in New York City. You can learn more about Andreina at her website here: https://www.andreina.me/.

Venezuela, Episode 2

In the first episode of When I Lived There, podcast host Jen Miller interviews Izabella Tabarovsky about her day-to-day life growing up in the Soviet Union. Izabella was born in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1989. Izabella is a senior program associate at the Kennan Institute, a division of the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Below are links to some of her published writing. The Price of Silence: Family Memory of Stalin's Repressions Walking in Each Other's Shoes, Through the Iron Curtain and Back Here's What People Don't Get about Conversions

The Soviet Union, Episode 1

This is a podcast about the day-to-day experiences of people who live in societies far less free than ours. Hearing their stories may just give us a little perspective about what we have here at home and what we could stand to lose if we take our democracy for granted. When I Lived There is hosted by Jen Miller and produced by Daniel Miller. Follow us on Twitter at @whenilivedthere.

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