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With ‘Homanity,’ dissident Iranian artists are making their voices heard

JL;DR SUMMARY Iranian Jewish human rights advocate Marjan Greenblatt is leading the Homanity project, a compilation of original music by Iranian artists, most of whom are political refugees living abroad. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IranCensorshipHuman RightsMusicCultural ResistanceCreative ExpressionDissident ArtistsMarjan GreenblattPersian TraditionPolitical Refugees

Places mentioned

Iran
"Music runs in Marjan Greenblatts blood. The Iranian Jewish human rights advocate plays the piano and her mother is a lifelong violinist; her paternal grandfather played the tar, an Iranian long-necked instrument that resembles a guitar."
France
"Greenblatts love of music was cultivated in Iran, but it stayed with her after she fled the country to France in the mid-1980s"
United States
"Greenblatts love of music was cultivated in Iran, but it stayed with her after she fled the country to France in the mid-1980s and later came to the U.S."
United Kingdom
"Behrouz Ghaemi, a British-Iranian guitarist and singer, will have a song out this Friday about the upcoming Iranian elections scheduled for June."
Sweden
"All but one of the musicians whose music will appear in the Homanity compilation have fled Iran and now live in countries including the U.S., the U.K., Sweden and Austria."
Austria
"All but one of the musicians whose music will appear in the Homanity compilation have fled Iran and now live in countries including the U.S., the U.K., Sweden and Austria."

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