Meet Elham Milani, an Iranian medical student who has just landed in South Africa. A first time traveller, Elham anxiously scans the busy airport for the person who's supposed to pick her up. As...
Meet Elham Milani, an Iranian medical student who has just landed in South Africa. A first time traveller, Elham anxiously scans the busy airport for the person who's supposed to pick her up. As...
Elham is welcomed into her surprising host family, when a call from home stirs up painful emotions.
Emotions intensify when Elham finds her significant other turning down her call for someone else. But Elham has no time for insecurities and tries to wash them down with orange juice and corn meal...
On her first day at university in South Africa, Elham feels that for the first time in her life she may actually be able to fit in. But just as she's soaring on high hopes, enter her new professor...
Is it just her imagination or is Elham's professor treating her differently than all the other students? Staying under his radar and laying low is the strategy she hopes will save her.
Elham's approach seems to be working until a Zimbabwean lecturer causes her to rethink her "duck-and-dive" strategy. Elham decides to face her demons in an elevator.
During a weekend at an orphanage, Elham teaches kids about cleanliness. One young boy takes the lesson too far and Elham has no choice but to call on the one person she's been avoiding as much as...
The day of her final clinical exam arrives but Elham questions the diagnosis every one else seems to be agreeing on. When she's dismissed from the examination hall, the last thing she's in the...
Elham is suffering through a Skype conversation, when her professor calls her into his office to discuss the outcome of her finals and hits her with a bomb she did not see coming.
When Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian came to Johannesburg, South Africa, she was confronted by a fascinating phenomenon: Ubuntu. It refers to a notion of collectivism or mutualism, a sense of...
We’ve just launched a web-series called “Dr. Elham”. You’ll see the episodes posted on our home page and in its specified section. Each week for the next eight weeks we will be releasing another...
When I was pregnant, I was told to exercise, to eat right, to walk, to breath and to try and give birth naturally. I had a myriad discussions around breastfeeding, the length of breastfeeding and...
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