I visited my dear cousin — dokhtar khaaleh — at her office at National Public Radio (NPR), while I was in Washington DC. We had lunch and exchanged latest family gossip. Never a dull conversation :o) This is her bio on the NPR site: Davar Iran Ardalan is the Senior Supervisory Producer at Weekend Edition Sunday. With over sixteen years experience in public broadcasting, Ardalan has produced hundreds of stories from profiles of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to actor and philanthropist Paul Newman to music features on legend Herbie Hancock and guitarmaker Paul Reed Smith to a cooking segment with culinary wizard Alton Brown. Prior to coming to Weekend Edition Sunday in January 2008, Ardalan worked as as Supervisory Producer on Morning Edition, the #1-rated morning radio program in the United States >>>
