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.
Heritage Words - conversations about the words we inherit and the meaning they bring to our lives - is produced by the HUC Jewish Language Project and HUC Connect.
Host and executive producer: Sarah Bunin Benor
Producers and editors: Kyle Fingerhut, Avishay Artsy
Video editor: Annabel Noar
Editorial consultants: Annabel Noar, Hannah Pressman
Special thanks to Galeet Dardashti for permission to use tracks from her album Monajat.
Theme music: Maurice El Medioni’s French and Algerian Judeo-Arabic album “Cafe Oran,” featuring the Klezmatics’ David Krakauer and Frank London, courtesy of Piranha Records.