Sisters Danielle and Galeet Dardashti grew up in a Jewish American family band: The Dardashti Family. They sang international folk music in 12 languages – English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Greek, Spanish, French, Japanese and more – but never any songs in Persian. This seems odd to them since both their father and grandfather were famous Iranian singers during the “Golden Age” 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.

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

Website: nightingaleofiran.com

Presented by The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a publication of 70 Faces Media, and distributed by PRX.

Host - Danielle Dardashti

Writer / Director / Senior Producer - Danielle Dardashti

Producer / Musical Director / Subject Matter Expert - Galeet Dardashti

Audio Editors / Sound Designers - Rebecca Seidel and Zachary Goldberg

Story Editor - Rider Alsop

Story Consultant - Asal Ehsanipour

Composer of Theme Song - Galeet Dardashti: “Melekh” from her album Monajat with Shanir Blumenkranz, Max ZT, Zafer Tawil, Philip Mayer

For this episode, thank you to: Farid and Sheila Dardashti, Shahla Javdan, Homa Sarshar, Lili Keypour, Nahid Pirnazar

Thank you to our sponsors:

-Jewish Writers’ Initiative Digital Storytellers Lab / Maimonides Fund

-Common Era

-Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation

-The Himan Brown Charitable Trust

-UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music

Our fiscal sponsor is Be’chol Lashon.