{"id":95536,"date":"2026-05-03T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/95536\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:20:13","slug":"how-2-iranian-brothers-in-china-use-ancient-music-as-a-bridge-through-wartime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/95536\/","title":{"rendered":"How 2 Iranian brothers in China use ancient music as a bridge through wartime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent concert in Beijing, as Persian melodies flowed from ancient instruments played by Majid and Massoud Shamaeezadah, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Iran war<\/a> was never far from the twin brothers\u2019 minds.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cEvery time we play, we think of our country, Iran,\u201d Majid said afterwards. \u201cOur music is very deep. It carries many feelings at once: sadness, happiness and imagination of home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The concert, held at the brothers\u2019 newly opened music workshop, featured five family instrumentalists whose individual performances merged into a single seamless harmony that transported the audience.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Against the backdrop of the Middle East conflict, the Shamaeezadah brothers are using their workshop to preserve and share Persian culture, offering traditional music as a sanctuary and bridge between Iran and China amid deep geopolitical uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-16lwkd e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777311971_539_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewDuration\" class=\"css-1vqvq42 e1o401181\">02:45<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">Indonesian seafarer among 20,000 stranded for months as Strait of Hormuz remains blocked<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian seafarer among 20,000 stranded for months as Strait of Hormuz remains blocked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a recent concert in Beijing, as Persian melodies flowed from ancient instruments played by Majid and Massoud&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[383,262,9107,4331,34,361,15018,37,2018,33651,33650,597,2017,25412,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-95536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-chinese","11":"tag-hong-kong","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-iranian","14":"tag-islamabad","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-jared-kushner","17":"tag-majid","18":"tag-massoud","19":"tag-persian","20":"tag-steve-witkoff","21":"tag-tsinghua-university","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116510616707766791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}