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My name is Nina. I was born in Binghampton New York on March 21, 1982 to an American-Dutch and Welsh mother and an Iranian-Azeri Turkish father. My mother's ancestors have been in America since the time of the early American settlers. They came from Holland and Wales. The Hamblets traveled in Ox carts from Vermont to settle in New York State. They built a home and founded Hambletville. Steven Hancock came from England and founded the Christ Church in Binghampton. David Bryant was a bear hunter and a giant. His hat and shoes are in a museum. My father is an Azeri-Turk from the Iranian side of the tri border area of Turkey, former Soviet Azerbaijan and Iran. It is a very beautiful and fascinating place, where the Silk Road runs through my Grandfather's old home, where Noah's Arc had landed, and where Saint Jude's grave rests, among the Kurds and the Turks. I have over 200 wonderful and loving family members in Iran, where I lived for 1 year, from 2002-2003. There I learned to speak Farsi, I became the only female Balaban or Duduk player in Iran, and filmed over 70 hrs digital documentary style footage. After returning from Iran I performed a solo with the Balaban/Duduk in a UNESCO concert in Toronto Canada, and in the US I gave presentations and played Balaban/Duduk at Universities (including Rutgers Middle Eastern Studies Dept.), Islamic community centers, and churches. Presently I’m working on a book and a film on my life changing grand journey to Iran, one of the most colorful, diverse and complex societies on this planet

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