In this episode of “Del Beh Del: Heart-to-Heart Conversations with the Global Iranian Diaspora,” co-hosts Ariana Damavandi and summer intern Tania Jiroudi engage guests from the Bay Area Iranian diaspora community in a long overdue conversation about being half-Iranian, growing up between cultures, and some of the ways in which they do and don’t fit in.

This conversation with Jasmina Aliakbar (Guamanian, Filipina, and Iranian), Joseph Ara (Mexican and Iranian), Ariana Damavandi (Irish and Iranian), Nuri Jones (African-American and Iranian), and Ariana Tabrizi (Italian and Iranian), reveals some of more nuanced ways being Iranian is a negotiation and how a label like “Iranian American” is inadequate to capture the experiences and ongoing journeys that our guests have embarked upon.