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This month, my guest is Ayeda Ayed, a Palestinian-Canadian expert on the culture of the Arab-speaking world. A performer herself, she speaks to us from Toronto about the Palestinian music scene and introduces us to recordings from its most significant women musicians. Here’s more about musicians and instruments and Palestinian culture (First broadcast on WPKN February 10, […]
Jen Marlowe, activist, author, filmmaker, talks about how she’s been raising funds for four children and youth from Gaza with whom she’s developed a close connections over the years. This time, she asked for pledges for each mile she ran in the Palestine marathon. You can listen here to Jen’s second appearance on Tidings. In […]
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These Tidings first came to you from Jamaica where I spent time with two artists in their family “yard”or compound in Oracabessa. You’ll hear Rani Carson talk about her journey from growing up Jewish to becoming a Rasta artist. Ras Ibrak, intuitive Jamaican artist, talks about the philosophy and beliefs of Rastafari and what it means […]
Tom Scovel returns to Woodstock School after 62 years and has many tales, thoughts and revelations to tell his erstwhile classmate, Hazel Selzer. We chat on Skype between California and the east end of Long Island, the conversation is broadcast on community radio station WPKN and posted here. (Broadcast on WPKN on February 13, 2019 […]
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For a few months now I have been wondering what does it feel like to be dying? We can describe our own hunger, joy, pain, fear, excitement, fatigue, so why shouldn’t we also be able to describe our own dying? I now realize that this is an aggressive maybe even an impertinent question. People turn […]
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A Tidings conversation about hospitality, friendship and loyalty with Raza Rumi, a Pakistani journalist, blogger, author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani traveller and follower of Sufi thought. The subject of hospitality holds a certain irony for Raza who is now in exile, forced to flee from his country after narrowly missing an […]
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Dr. Ramzy Baroud talks about growing up in an UNRWA-managed refugee camp in Gaza, the significance of the Trump administration’s recent retraction of UNRWA funding to the Palestinians and why this amounts to an existential threat to Palestinians’ Right of Return. (Broadcast on WPKN radio October 10, 2018 and produced by Tony Ernst.) You may […]
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Tim Johnston, co-author of His Own Man: the biography of Otto Peltzer, Champion athlete, Nazi victim and Indian heroA remarkable story about a gay Olympics athlete living through Germany’s Weimar and Third Reich eras. An exceptional man living in extraordinary times. (First broadcast on WPKN December 14, 2016. Produced by Tony Ernst)
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Jim Sterba talks about his book Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds in which he examines the last five hundred years of wildlife plundering, deforestation, conservation and suburban sprawl along with our “denatured” life have led to unmanageable wildlife populations including the deer plaguing our region. I reviewed Sterba’s […]
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What a wonderful first novel Christina Nichol has written! Waiting for the Electricity, first published in 2014 by Overlook Press and now available in paperback, is set in post-Soviet Georgia. It’s a most unusual story about a strange, fascinating country. If, like me, you knew (almost) nothing about the Republic of Georgia, you’ll know a lot […]
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.
