How music transports the Afghan diaspora to their homeland
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This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to Ideas. I'm Mala Ayed. No one sings about separation quite like Hangama does. Home is Afghanistan, and separation is at the heart of itself.
story. Music so powerful it reaches across time and space. I think music is the the main strument in in recreating a home. And poetry, I guess, comes next.
But these two are are very, very powerful phenomena that help us to recreate the the sense of past that you had lost. We're bringing you a special series on the idea of home. and what it means to find safe harbor in a fractured world. We're speaking with members of the Afghan diaspora on an endless journey to find home. In the love songs, Are we not in love with our homelands?
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