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Syrian-American composer, pianist and humanitarian activist Malek Jandali talks about his international mission to preserve and protect Syria’s rich embattled heritage and to build peace through music and education. In this spirit, he founded an annual competition for young pianists and the Pianos for Peace festival in Atlanta. The Carnegie Corporation named him a Great […]
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Tim Johnston, co-author of His Own Man: the biography of Otto Peltzer, Champion athlete, Nazi victim and Indian hero. A remarkable story about a gay Olympic athlete living through Germany’s Weimar and Third Reich eras. An exceptional man living in extraordinary times. (WPKN December 14, 2016. Produced by Tony Ernst.)
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In this first of a three-part series, two conversations: the first, with John Daido Loori (1931-2009) founder and former abbott of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York, died shortly after this interview was taped. Daido Roshi, as he was known to his students, was founder and former abbott of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York and […]
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Natalie Vie is a Latina and a US Team fencer, sculptor, yogi and immigration and civil rights activist. Within a historical context of segregation and minority consciousness in the Southwest, Natalie builds a vivid picture of what it means to grow up Hispanic in Arizona and to navigate the changing personal and cultural situations she continues […]
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In this very personal Tidings, Tom Scovel and I swap stories about our boarding school days in India and what growing up as Third Culture Kids meant to each of us: for Tom born and raised in China (which he’s captured in his terrific book) and for me, Pakistan was home. Special thanks to Pat […]
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Coming to us from Jerusalem via Skype is Jen Marlowe,, a tireless and imaginative social justice activist, with a lifelong commitment to fight for human rights wherever in the world she sees them abused, using whatever medium, device or initiatives for her numerous “donkeysaddle” projects projects that she considers best suited to the need at hand. […]
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Hirsh Sawhney talks about his new novel South Haven, set in an imagined suburb of Connecticut and published by Akashic Books. The conversation ranges from this very local story to the immigrant, Indian and transnational cultures that Sawhney and his writings also inhabit. (Broadcast on WPKN May 11 , 2016)
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Tom Rawinski is a botanist with the USDA Forest Service in Durham, New Hampshire. Specializing in the impact of the overabundant white-tailed deer population on native vegetation in America’s northeast region, he is committed to protecting our ecosystem through wildlife management policy and practices. Rawinski applies his beliefs as a conservationist and follower of Aldo […]
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India’s Dr. Sara Bhattacharji is talking about the philosophy and principles behind the community health clinic she runs in Vellore, Tamil Nadu and where I visited her in 2009. Her belief in healthcare as a human right seems to me as radical today as it did then. I am delighted to share the wonderful Dr. Sara with my […]
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Dr. John Soos, is a clinical psychologist who describes himself as a spiritual traveller and social justice advocate. Speaking via Skype from Vancouver, Canada he tells us how his pilgrimages to sacred places led him to Gaza where, he and his mental health colleagues worked with the deeply traumatized people of Gaza. (Produced by Tony Ernst and broadcast […]
Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…
Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.
