Your Native Analyst
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -Your Native Analyst is a podcast for anyone who has ever wondered what is REALLY going on in Iran and the Middle East. And how on earth does that affect us in Europe and the Netherlands.
I'm your host, Somaye Dehban, a devoted Dutchified Iranian whose life is quite interwoven with politics. I moved to the Netherlands to study in 2005, and after the 2009 contested Iranian Presidential Election, I live here in exile. Since 2015, I'm a naturalized Dutch/European citizen.
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Episodes
Eight Years of Unjust War
March 08, 2022 03:00 - 30 minutes - 69.4 MBHallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a devoted Dutchified Iranian whose life is quite interwoven with politics. Your Native Analyst is a series of my op-eds (opinion-editorials) about how the events in Iran and the Middle East are reflected (or not) in the Western Media. In Episode #6: Eight Years of Unjust War, I talk about Guiding Coalition which is the second stage in my personal and organizational model: Verbinding. I also talk about Iran Iraq war that lasted for 8 years during the 80s, whic...
1979 Revolution: Iranian or Islamic?
February 08, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutes - 58.8 MBHallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a devoted Dutchified Iranian whose life is quite interwoven with politics. Your Native Analyst is a series of my op-eds (opinion-editorials) about how the events in Iran and the Middle East are reflected (or not) in the Western Media. In Episode #5: 1979 Revolution: Iranian or Islamic? I will talk about Systemic Review which is the first stage of Understanding as the first phase of my personal and organizational transformation that I've dubbed Verbinding. I w...
Democratic Potential
January 11, 2022 04:00 - 31 minutes - 71.4 MBHallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a devoted Dutchified Iranian whose life is quite interwoven with politics. Your Native Analyst is a series of my op-eds (opinion-editorials) about how the events in Iran and the Middle East are reflected (or not) in the Western Media. In Episode #4: Democratic Potential, I will be talking about "Understanding". Understanding is the first phase of a model that I have developed over the last couple of years in the domain of personal and organizational transforma...
Pre-Selection (Quarterly)
December 14, 2021 05:00 - 17 minutes - 40.1 MBHallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a devoted Dutchified Iranian whose life is quite interwoven with politics. Your Native Analyst is a series of my op-eds (opinion-editorials) about how the events in Iran and the Middle East are reflected (or not) in the Western Media. In Episode #3: Pre-Selection you hear about the nature of elections in Iran and how every elected official representative of Iran has been pre-selected by the Supreme Leader. And I provide a summary of topics that were presented ...
The Mule
November 09, 2021 05:00 - 16 minutes - 38.6 MBHallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a devoted Dutchified Iranian whose life is quite interwoven with politics. Your Native Analyst is a series of my op-eds (opinion-editorials) about how the events in Iran and the Middle East are reflected (or not) in the Western Media. In Episode #2: The Mule, I talk about the Islamic Republic of Iran’s political system and how complicated and yet straightforward it is. This complicated political system creates a lot of room for the Iran’s government/regime to ...
Prologue
October 12, 2021 04:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBHallo - This is Somaye Dehban, a devoted Dutchified Iranian whose life is quite interwoven with politics. Your Native Analyst is a series of my op-eds (opinion-editorials) about how the events in Iran and the Middle East are reflected (or not) in the Western Media. In Episode #1: Prologue, I talk about how I got to live in exile after 2009 Iranian Presidential Election, how depiction of Qasim Soleimani in Western Media has been quite misleading, and how as a liberal I follow the Declaratio...
Introducing Your Native Analyst by Somaye Dehban
October 04, 2021 09:49 - 2 minutes - 2.44 MBI am your host Somaye Dehban and this is my trailer introducing my new podcasts. Scale Your Impact is a podcast for anyone who has an interest in understanding and measuring impact and figuring out how to scale the effectiveness of cross-sector partnerships to achieve the 2030 agenda of the United Nations. I'm your host, Somaye Dehban, a passionate Dutchified Iranian who is rather obsessed with impact measurement, cross-sector partnerships and scale-up. Scale Your Impact is based on my Ph...
Trailer: Your Native Analyst with Somaye Dehban
October 04, 2021 09:49 - 2 minutes - 2.44 MBI am your host Somaye Dehban and this is my trailer introducing my new podcasts. Scale Your Impact is a podcast for anyone who has an interest in understanding and measuring impact and figuring out how to scale the effectiveness of cross-sector partnerships to achieve the 2030 agenda of the United Nations. I'm your host, Somaye Dehban, a passionate Dutchified Iranian who is rather obsessed with impact measurement, cross-sector partnerships and scale-up. Scale Your Impact is based on my Ph...