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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 […]
Day 48 of ’75 Days of Partition’ – Hazel Kahan’s unique family experience of the Holocaust in Germany followed by the Partition in India is unlike anything that has been written about previously. Hazel Kahan’s Jewish parents escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930’s, taking refuge in British India where they were interned for a number […]
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There’s no such place as home! This is a personal story, based on conversations with my school friends from a very far away place and a very long ago time. Midge, Pat and I were children together at Woodstock, an international boarding school in Mussoorie in the state of Uttarakhand, 6,600 ft up in the Indian […]
Our conversation (scroll for audio) began with Ramzy Baroud talking about his article documenting the plight of seriously ill Palestinian women who are refused medical treatment by Israel because of their family’s Hamas connections. Our conversation ended with Ramzy explaining his view of duality: with Ahed Tamimi as example, the reality and essence of one Ahed, […]
Poppy Johnson, assistant library director at Greenport’s 100-year old Roger Memorial Library, talks about how she and the library became what they are and what role the library plays in the community.
Tipping as seen by menus. A frivolous companion to the more serious world of tipping world as seen by people. See the whole blog post from 2008 here.
A Picture Is Worth 25 Lives Janet Lee Berg “Rembrandt’s Shadow” Janet Lee Berg Post Hill Press, $15 In the 72 years since it ended, World War II has provided us with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of stories, a global event that has kept on giving. Just when one thinks the stories have all been […]
For a daring new leafages project made possible by the leather-like quality of this most noble of leaves.
Rare video showing refugees reaching Lahore’s Wagha border on trains, bullocks and Lahore Omnibus Service during the 1947 partition war. These were Muslims forced to flee India because what was formerly India had now been partitioned by the British into primarily Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, resulting in millions of deaths and enormous dispossession and displacement. The film offers poignant contrast […]
About Hazel
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…
About Leafages
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.