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The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Art
Thinking
World
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Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Behind Closed Doors
Closed Doors
Doors
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The most important element of democracy, I believe, is the protection of minorities.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Believe
Democracy
Important
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Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Believe
Dogma
Want
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I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Art
Military
Philosophy
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I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Believe
Borders
Play
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I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Enemy
Giving Up
Iran
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My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Believer
Military
My Family
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I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Boys
One Day
Tears
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I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't my thing. But, at the same time, rap is a simple, direct and strong musical language.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Rap
Simple
Strong
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I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques, all of the things that this entails. And, of course, it involved studying the Koran.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Age
Breathing
Technique
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Iran is hard to understand. Although it is ruled in an authoritarian manner, it's not a state in which everything is controlled from one center. There are many forces that work in parallel: the military, the intelligence service, the Revolutionary Guard, the clergy and the government. They all share a fear of the nation's youth.
Shahin Najafi / Musician
Government
Iran
Military
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