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#5: Munir, News Face and Oranges
From: Nadia Abuelezam
Series: Palestinians Podcast
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We hear from Munir Jirmanus, a physicist near Boston, MA about his multiple experiences and encounters with the concept of "home." Munir tells a nu...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 26:19
Born to Run: Is Nearly Barefoot Best?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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As runners gear up for race season, Christopher McDougall's book is timely. He spurred on the barefoot running revolution several years ago with hi...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
Author Charles Mann and Life in the New World
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” science writer Mann describes what some of the North and South American nations looked ...

Bought by WTJU, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 3
Nuclear Iran
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nuclear Iran, Credit: By Daryl G. Kimball, Peter Crail, and Greg Thielmann
UN nuclear inspectors visited Iran to once again try to determine if Iran's civilian nuclear program is indeed a cover for weapons development, how...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Sanctions Against Iran
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Istock Photo
As the world community tightens economic sanctions against Iran, many are questioning the possibility of unintended consequences.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
Why They Call it "Going for Broke" with Mark Blyth
From: Open Source
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Sharp-talking political economist Mark Blyth is back in the Glasgow pub, so we say, and he's expounding on the melt-down that's still melting down ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 1
Late in the Arab Spring with Juan Cole and Steven Heydemann
From: Open Source
Caption: Steven Heydemann at Brown University's "Engaging Afghanistan" Conferece
With the news of Osama Bin Laden's death punctuating the reports from Libya, Syria, and Yemen, we're wondering: is this the beginning of the end, o...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From: Open Source
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Black Swan of Cairo - Mark Blyth
From: Open Source
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Open Source "Shorties" are 7-8 minute cuts of our best evergreen material. Today: Mark Blyth on the political economy of uncertainty in Japan, Egyp...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
A Jewish Reflection on the Arab Revolt - Philip Weiss
From: Open Source
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Journalist Philip Weiss reflects on the links and gaps between European anti-semitism, the neoconservative movement, the modern idea of Zionism, an...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
From Pakistan to Tanglewood - Vazira Zamindar & Composers
From: Open Source
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Historian Vazira Zamindar talks about the "wound of partition" in today's Pakistan. Then, we meet three young composers - Cynthia Lee Wong, Jacob B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon
From: Open Source
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Human Textures - Nir Rosen & Marianne Leone Cooper
From: Open Source
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Even as we watched transfixed as the protests in Egypt and Tunisia pushed the region's political scene into new waters, Nir Rosen stayed (will stay...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
Africa in a Chinese Century, Firecracker Prose - Howard French & Lydia Davis
From: Open Source
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This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Pakistan Pulse-Takers - Daniyal Mueenuddin & Najam Sethi
From: Open Source
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We're talking with the Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi and the fictionist Daniyal Mueenuddin. With both the underlying supposition is that it's Pa...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Kabul to Paris with John Mearsheimer and Graham Robb
From: Open Source
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This week the conversation moves from Kabul to Paris, as we talk with John Mearsheimer, the foreign policy "realist" from the University of Chicago...

Bought by WMNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 07, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
American Conversations with Andrew Bacevich & Vijay Iyer
From: Open Source
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This week we're talking with the soldier-turned-author of Washington Rules, Andrew Bacevich. Then we sit down at the piano with the jazz improv sta...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dying to Tell the World About Tibet
From: The Tibet Connection
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The headache and heartache of a small human rights group run by Tibetans in exile...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2008
  • Length: 04:09
ASMA BARLAS discusses women and Islam
From: Tish Pearlman
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Professor of Politics Asma Barlas discusses her experiences as a Muslim and her research regarding women and Islam

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:00
Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire
From: Seattle Globalist
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An exploration of American expatriates' decisions to move from the United States to Israel or Palestine

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WBEZ, WMNF, and CKMO


  • Added: Aug 12, 2006
  • Length: 14:47
  • Purchases: 4
John Olmstead talks about Venezuela
From: KBOO Youth Collective
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John Olmstead talks to his son Josh about traveling in Central America in the past, some political and cultural history, and his upcoming trip to t...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jan 11, 2006
  • Length: 08:28
  • Purchases: 1