Ep 9: Zahra Emamzadeh – talking of Iran, and home

We're told that nearly 28% of New Zealand's population were born elsewhere. We come as outsiders, and learn to live in this quieter place where the streets, by comparison, can seem almost empty. Assumptions are often made: "Oh, you're from ______. That means . . . " It seems valuable to ask what we 'new' New Zealanders, we 'others' (I'm one) bring with us. What were we taught in those faraway places? What might we miss of that place we called 'home'?   Today Zahra Emamzadeh talks of Iran, of Tehran  with 10 million people, and the family (and food) that were, and are, precious to her; of her mother's response when she sent back pictures of Christchurch: "Where are all the people. In your photographs I only see the three of you!".