Posted on 29 April 2009. Tags: 90210, 90210 adriana pregnant, adriana, adrianna, beverly hills 90210, navid, navid and adrianna, navis shirazi
Finally! Navid gets some more airtime, and we get to hear more Farsi – even if the accents aren’t perfect – on Beverly Hills 90210.On last night’s episode, Navid took Adrianna home to tell his parents that he was going to marry her. His Persian parents reacted unlike any Persian parents we know – especially for hearing that their 16-year old son/heir is planning on getting married to his teen-aged pregnant girlfriend - but hey, it is television.
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Posted on 12 November 2008. Tags: adriana, beverly hills 90210, beverly hills 90210 cast, michael steger, navid on 90210, navid shirazi, persian character, persian character on 90210, The CW

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Did you watch 90210 last night?
We were wearing our “persian-critic” glasses as we watched, and to our super-duper pleasant surprise… we got to hear some Farsi, – yes, even a simple Khorresht (stew) and Tonbak (persian drums) mention counts in our book - see Navid’s family, and get a sense for some Persian hospitality.
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Posted on 29 October 2008. Tags: beverly hills 90210, navid shirazi

Finally!
It seems as though Navid Shirazi might be getting some more storylines.
Last night on Beverly Hills 90210 (2.0), Persian character Navid Shirazi confessed his love for his middle-school crush, the rehab-visiting “Adriana”. This – we hope – means that there will be more to come for Navid.
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Posted on 02 October 2008. Tags: beverly hills 90210, Iranian character, michael steger, navid shirazi 90210, navid shirazi 90210 character, persian character 90210, persian navid 90210

So, our new favorite character to watch – in an attempt to guage the authenticity of the Persian-ness attributed to him and his image for wider audiences to judge - Navid Shirazi (played by Michael Steger, the non-Persian actor that plays the Persian role) finally said “yes” when asked whether he was Persian or not.
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Posted on 03 September 2008. Tags: beverly hills 90210, erin silver, gossip girl, jessica stroup, louboutin, michael steger, navid shirazi 90210, new beverly hills 90210, persian palace, The CW, west beverly high

Did you watch the premiere episode of the much-hyped-about Beverly Hills 90210 on The CW?
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Posted on 20 May 2008. Tags: 90210, beverly hills 90210, Iranian character, michael steger, navid 90210, navid 90210 persian, navid shirazi, persian character, persian character on 90210
As we predicted, Michael Steger, the actor cast to play the character of Navid Shirazi in the new Beverly Hills 90210 spinoff – set to air this September - is not of Iranian descent.
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Posted on 14 May 2008. Tags: Anna Lynne McCord, beverly hills 90210, beverly hills 90210 cast, Dustin Milligan, jessica stroup, jessica walter, lori loughlin, michael steger, navid 90210 persian, navid on 90210, navid persian 90210, navid shirazi 90210, ryan eggold, shenae grimes, Tristan Wilds

Photo Credit: Jennifer Macleod
The names of the new Beverly Hills 90210 cast have been revealed: Dustin Milligan, Anna Lynne McCord, Jessica Walter, Shenae Grimes, Tristan Wilds, Lori Loughlin, Ryan Eggold, Jessica Stroup, and Michael Steger.
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Posted on 04 February 2008. Tags: beverly hills 90210, navid 90210, navid and adrianna, navid new girlfriend, navid shirazi

While Adrianna reveals her pregnancy to all of West Beverly… Navid moves on.
“You’d be really beautiful, if you didn’t have that bad hairdo,” Navid told some girl at the Peach Pit. And as if that wasn’t enough, in another scene he starts to ramble like a struggling-geek to Nika Raygani – presumably his new love-interest – played by Noureen Dewulf (who is of Indian origin) but, to his surprise, she’s a geek too.
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Posted on 08 January 2008. Tags: adrianna, beverly hills 90210, navid 90210, navid and adrianna, navid shirazi

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We didn’t see this one coming.
In the last episode of 90210, Navid Shirazi’s girlfriend, Adrianna, was told that she was “pregnant” as she waited to hear the results of her HIV test.
Most Iranian guys would rather father their own kids, but we’re sure there are the rare exceptions out there as well. And since Navid hasn’t been portrayed as the “typical” Iranian male, we have a feeling he may stand by his GF through this tough time in her scripted life.
Click here to watch a preview of next week’s show, “Love Me or Leave Me”.
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