In this episode, Sarah Bunin Benor interviews Galeet Dardashti, an anthropologist, musician, composer, and a trailblazing and award-winning performer and scholar of Middle Eastern Jewish culture. Galeet also co-created the award-winning podcast “The Nightingale of Iran,” about her family's Persian musical legacy.
Anthropologist and musician/composer Dr. Galeet Dardashti, has earned a reputation as a trail-blazing and award-winning performer and scholar of Middle Eastern Jewish culture. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology, specializing in Mizrahi cultural politics. She has held professor positions at NYU, JTS, and recently completed a 2024 fellowship at UPenn. As a performer, Dardashti is widely known as leader/founder of Divahn, and from her solo release, The Naming. In her celebrated recent release, Monajat, Galeet sings with remixed samples of her famed Iranian grandfather. Dardashti also co-created the award-winning podcast, The Nightingale of Iran, about her family’s Persian musical legacy.
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