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With his new album, "A Voice Keeps Calling Me", the Persian santur player Kioomars Musayyebi is building bridges from Iran across the Arab world to European early music. By Stefan Franzen

With his new album, "A Voice Keeps Calling Me", the Persian santur player Kioomars Musayyebi is building bridges from Iran across the Arab world to European early music. By Stefan Franzen

"Don’t talk about integration, just do it" The child of Iraqi refugees, Saman Haddad arrived in Germany twenty-five years ago at the age of thirteen. Now a well-known cultural figure in Bonn, Haddad doesnt wait for others to take the initiative. Nor does he let others reactions put him off. Profile by Philipp Jedicke In a room in the middle of the city centre of Bonn, Germany, Saman Haddad sits behind a transparent screen, singing. Hans-Joachim Busching, clarinettist in the Beethoven Orchest...