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This month I bring you music tidings from Lahore, the town where I was born. You will hear interviews with three Pakistani musicians: first, Noor Zehra playing the Sagar Veena, a stringed instrument created by her father Raza Kazim; then Ali Noor with one of Pakistan’s most popular pop rock bands Noori, and lastly, Irum Taukir, a […]
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Ray Oldenburg, professor, urban sociologist and expert on the ‘third places’ of our culture talks about what they are, why we need them and what we have lost by not having them. (First broadcast on March 26, 2011)
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Nancy Stout, author of One Day in December: Celia Sanchez and the Cuban Revolution, a biography of Celia Sánchez, a leading architect of Cuba’s revolution, published by Monthly Review Press with a foreword by Alice Walker. Celia is a fascinating, complex woman who is not well known in this country. In Cuba though she is […]
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Gary English, Founding Artistic Director of Connecticut Repertory Theatre and Distinguished Professor in Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut. More recently, he has been working as artistic director of The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp in Palestine’s occupied West Bank. Gary describes the development of The Freedom Theatre in the context of the […]
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Recorded in Lahore in March 2013, Hydr Ibrahim, Pakistani architect and co-founder of Resettling the Indus, talks about the grass roots social movement that is rebuilding flood- and war-ravaged villages in the Punjab, Sindh and South Waziristan regions of the Indus valley. Recorded in Lahore last month, Hydr Ibrahim, Pakistani architect and founder of Resettling the […]
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John Hill, notable Jungian analyst, at the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, talks about apocalyptic psychology in the context of worldwide response to the Mayan calendar’s “end of world” predictions. Despite the fact that these predictions have always proved false, John Hill tells us why they have always been with us and why […]
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Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Network, talks about an international movement of community-led response to climate change, resource depletion and fossil fuels. Embraced by communities in 34 countries, including 130 (so far) in the US, the Transition model provides a sustainable blueprint for communities learning to grow their own food, generate their own power, build their own […]
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Do you know where your passport is? Listen and you’ll hear my personal reflections along with what my son, grandson and two friends have told me about their feelings about their passports. Could my neurotic feelings be a legacy from my refugee parents? (First broadcast March 14, 2012) Blog post here.
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Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange, discusses her new book Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, her recent delegation to Pakistan to express solidarity with the Pakistani people and to protest US drone strikes, the numerous legal, moral and practical issues raised by the proliferation of drone technology and how she and her fellow […]
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Producer Catherine Komp and anchor Dorian Merina of Free Speech Radio News talk about FSRN’s news gathering and editorial process, its virtual, commuting operations and its worker-run collective organizational structure. FSRN came into being in 2000 by striking reporters protesting the censorship policies of the Pacifica Network. (Broadcast on WPKN on September 12. 2012)
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.
