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Published: Feb. 6, 2024, 12:42 p.m.

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Sisters Danielle and Galeet Dardashti grew up in a Jewish American family band: The Dardashti Family. They sang international folk music in 12 languages \\u2013 English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Greek, Spanish, French, Japanese and more \\u2013 but never any songs in Persian. This seems odd to them since both their father and grandfather were famous Iranian singers during the \\u201cGolden Age\\u201d for Jews in Iran, before the Islamic Revolution. Danielle and Galeet make a discovery that takes them back in time, and helps them find answers to their questions about why their family left Iran and abandoned their Iranian identity.

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Co-creators / Co-executive producers - Danielle Dardashti and Galeet Dardashti

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The Nightingale of Iran - nightingaleofiran.com

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Presented by The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a publication of 70 Faces Media

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Host - Danielle Dardashti

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Writer / Director / Senior Producer - Danielle Dardashti

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Producer / Musical Director / Subject Matter Expert - Galeet Dardashti

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Audio Editors / Sound Designers - Rebecca Seidel and Zachary Goldberg

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Story Editor - Rider Alsop

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Story Consultant - Asal Ehsanipour

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Composer of Theme Song - Galeet Dardashti: \\u201cMelekh\\u201d from her album Monajat, featuring Younes Dardashti (with Shanir Blumenkranz, Max ZT, Zafer Tawil, Philip Mayer)

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In Episode 1, The Time Machine, you heard our conversations with: Farid and Sheila Dardashti, Shahla Javdan, Homa Sarshar, Lili Keypour, and Nahid Pirnazar.

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Thank you to our sponsors:

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-Jewish Writers\\u2019 Initiative Digital Storytellers Lab / Maimonides Fund

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-Common Era

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-Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation

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-The Himan Brown Charitable Trust

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-UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music

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-Be\\u2019chol Lashon (fiscal sponsor)

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Dedication: This is for you Dadders!!! We love you (and Mommy) so much!!!! xox

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We are so grateful for: our extraordinary husbands, Roni Sarig and Mason Weisz, who have contributed in countless ways big and small; Danielle\\u2019s amazing kids, Uri Dardashti Sarig and Raquel Dardashti Sarig, who have lent their talents in story editing, sound capture, episode cover art design, and more; and Galeet\\u2019s kids -Yaniv and Adin\\u2013for being such incredible humans.

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There are so many people we want to thank for their love, guidance, support, and inspiration on this project: Houri & Younes Dardashti, Millie & Louie Heifetz, Michelle Dardashti, Yadid Dardashti, Shahnaze Dardashti, Hamid Dardashti, Louise Motevassel, David Dardashti, Oren Motevassel, Niloo Dardashti, Schelly Dardashti, Jina Aziz-Zadeh, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Dawne Bear Novicoff, Vicki Compter Lefkowitz, Jeni Friedman, Rebecca Friedman, Rebecca Guber, Debbie Kolben, Ami Eden, Caleb Guedes Reed, Sharon Nazarian, Jessamyn Rodriguez, Yonah Schiller, Richard Kay, Mark Kligman, Sarah Lefton, Janine Okmin, Arielle Nissenblatt, Ilana Nevins, Lauren Passell, Habib Partow, Alan Niku, Ruth Abusch-Magder, Julian Voloj, Melina Rosenberg, Lior Sternfeld, Houman Sarshar, Edwin Seroussi, Laura Younai, Rachel Nazarian Ehsagpour, Mohsen Mohammadi, Manucher Bibiyan, Haideh Herbert, Homa Sarshar, Shahla Javdan, Lili Keypour, Nahid Pirnazar, Tarlan Rabizadeh, Evan Mateen, Hasan Sarbakhshian, Sierra Ulrich, David Shofet, Sarah Benor and Hadas Bram.

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Intro credits read by: Michelle Dardashti

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Cover art design: Ghulam Nabi

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Assistants: Courtney Cunningham & Jessica DeWeese

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Marketing / PR: Tink

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Distributed by PRX, the Public Media Exchange

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