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پادکست روزانه رادیو پیام دوست ۲۳ فروردین ۱۴۰۵

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A Kurdish artist explains how music became her soul's food while performing in countries where women couldn't sing.

1. PersianBMS Daily Podcast for April 12, 2026 (23rd of Farvardin 1405) presents its weekly program in two segments: the Asouda television program segment and episode 12 of Plak, focused on social trust. 2. The Asouda segment features a Kurdish-Iranian female musician who has built her career in diaspora after leaving Iran, where women are prohibited from singing or performing on stage. 3. The episode's core themes are: music as a universal bridge across cultures and languages, and social trust as the foundational infrastructure of any functioning society. 4. The musician describes beginning her performing life as a dancer and giving her first concert at age 18 in Kurdistan for a large audience, emphasizing the contrast with her inability to perform professionally in Iran. 5. She describes working in Africa and Germany with musicians from multiple cultures, saying: 'in this environment, I can say that it becomes a table — everyone plays their music in this environment.' 6. She has participated in a community music project in Dusseldorf for approximately three years, affiliated with OPA/Haus der Köln, where she teaches Farsi and Kurdish music to German participants. 7. She has also recorded a multicultural album with four singers: herself (Iranian), an Arab woman, Maria Jonas (a German singer who recently died), and an Italian woman. 8. She is currently studying Musikvermittlung — a new German academic field covering cultural mediation through music, workshops, concert management, and cross-cultural education. 9. She co-authored a book with American professor Rose Campion on the music culture of Kurdistan and the experiences of women refugee singers in Germany, describing approximately 80% of the book as drawn from her own lived experience. 10. She reflects on regional musical diversity within Iran, noting the distinct rhythms and performance cultures of Bushehr, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah, and saying: 'you can even use that rhythm and that special rhythm in many places.' 11. Plak 12 is hosted by Kimia Farooqi and Irfan Khanjani, opening with a discussion of how trust transforms a stranger into a safe and close person over time. 12. Irfan Khanjani uses the example of a Swiss farm stand — where products are left unattended with an honesty box and people pay without supervision — to illustrate a high-trust society. 13. The hosts trace the historical development of social trust from intra-tribal trust in early humanity to the gradual extension of trust to strangers such as foreign traders and unknown travelers. 14. Social expert Dunia Tabesh is introduced and argues that social trust is like blood in the body — without it, solidarity and friendship in society collapse entirely. 15. Tabesh emphasizes that trust does not begin with waiting for government or other people to act, but starts from personal honesty and truthfulness at the individual level. 16. She argues that accepting people with different opinions is a form of trust that enables justice, cohesion, and better collective decision-making. 17. The segment includes sociological definitions of trust from Durkheim (peace of mind), Ziemel (trust as faith), Coleman (trust as a calculated risk), and Fukuyama (trust as social investment that reduces the cost of cooperation). 18. The episode closes with a discussion of Harper Lee's 1960 novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' framing lawyer Atticus Finch's defense of an innocent Black man in 1930s Alabama as an act of social trust and individual courage against institutional injustice. 19. Listeners of Persian, Kurdish, or Iranian diaspora background who are interested in cultural identity, immigrant experience, and social cohesion would find both segments resonant and substantive. 20. Listeners who prefer content in a language other than Persian or Farsi, or who have no background in diaspora and migration experiences, may find the cultural context harder to access.

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