Celebrating Library Week in Brighton with a selection of live courtesy of Best Foot Music. Featuring Bashir Al Gamar from Sudan and Kourosh & Reza with some Iranian folk songs. Bashir is raising funds for a well in his home village near the...
Steve talks to the Kurdish musician Mansour Izadpanah about his life and work. Featuring a world exclusive premier of his new song, composed in exile and in lockdown with musicians across the world: Zayalay Awin, or “Love Echo.” In this...
Live from the Sussex Kurdish Community banquet at Hove Town Hall in 2014, with Kurdish folk music from Suna Alan.
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Osama interviews Farah about her life as a member of the Baháʼí Faith from Iran, now living in the UK and working tirelessly for the community.
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We meet the Bahá’í community in Brighton and Hove and learn about one of the world’s newest religions, with its principles of peace and universal unity.
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Steve talks to Mr Freeborn about the culture and music of the Bakhtiari people, nomads of southwestern Iran.
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Journey through the tribes of Iran with the folk band Rastak.
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Interview and readings from Ali Abolrezaei, banned from teaching and public speaking in Iran because of his writing, and Abol Froushan, one of the most important thinkers in post-exile literature. Ali Abdolrezaei Biography: Ali...
Live music and poetry from the Iranian Community in Brighton, with an amazing display of virtuosity on the santoor by Mr Shapouri and the history behind some mysterious Persian artefacts
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A race against time to cook a fabulous Iranian dish of khoresht kadu for 50 hungry people with the Singing Chef! Meet Mister Freeborn.
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