Persian pop group Abjeez

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Reporter Betto Arcos has the story of two Iranian sisters who make Persian pop music in Stockholm and Los Angeles. Their group is called Abjeez, which is slang for “sister” in Farsi. Download MP3
Watch Abjeez’s video for their song “Eddeaa”

Iran and translation, a search engine is sick in Chinese, and a drug ring’s Arabic dialects

Patrick Cox and Carol Hills select the top five language-related
stories from June. Among them: Google translation gets to work on the streets of Teheran; Microsoft’s choice of Bing as the name for its search engine to rival Google may not go down well in China; a music festival in Quebec runs afoul of language sensitivies; and a drug ring in Pennsylvannia uses Iraqi Arabic dialects in its communications.Listen