David Naimon
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4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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But I say this here because it plays a big role in not only how your family becomes a family,
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But on the questions of language and silence within your family, which is a big part of this book, your mother and father met in Pakistan as displaced people, one from Afghanistan, one from Iranian Kurdistan.
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And the most palpable silence in this book to me is your father's silence.
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Both his silence regarding your family history, I imagine, what he saw in the
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unexperienced, but also the lack of transmission between you and him, as you were not raised with the Kurdish language, his mother tongue.
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You've quoted another Kurdish person stating in a barbed fashion, never say you did not understand the Kurds.
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We spoke all your languages.
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Because everyone who speaks Kurdish has to move through the world with another language or languages.
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But your household, in contrast, has languages spoke by some and not by others.
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And I was hoping you could describe the situation linguistically for you growing up in Dearborn, Michigan, both in the house and in the world, the gaps and the overlaps.
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Who spoke what and when
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And also about your relationship to the language you don't speak to Kurdish as well.
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It does.
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You were in a conversation with
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Giovanni Rosa?
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Where you talk about the language you did speak with your parents, Dari.
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That even here, even within this question of speaking Dari, the shared language of your home.
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The Dari at home was not the Dari you learned in school, which was actually Iranian farsi, a relative of it.
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But also on top of that, it's a more academic presentation of language in school, which was very different from the way your parents spoke who didn't go to school.
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And you say to Giovanni that one of the ways you came to language is through not
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