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In episode 14 Farrah returns with Houda to talk about her family’s harrowing experience in their home in Homs, Syria early in the war. After the ev...
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 05:20
Ahmad Naffory fell in love with the guitar in a Syrian grocery store, but he didn't know that his music would cause him to flee his home for anothe...
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 27:05
Episode 8: Houda & Melanie refer to Houda’s apartment complex in Tucson as Small Syria—16 Syrian families live there today, but a year ago there we...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 03:36
A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 18:59
I worked in a refugee camp in Thessaloniki, Greece this summer and put together an hour long piece meant to humanize the refugee crisis.
Listen to...
Bought by KVSC, KPIP-LP, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2017
- Length: 55:26
- Purchases: 3
Mahmoud Toureh is now 23. He moved to Fargo, North Dakota when he was 12. He talks about his life between two countries, his fears for Syria, and...
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 18:52
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 09:11
Four journalists drive right into Tskhinvali on the first day of the 2008 Russian Georgian war. This episode is a first hand account from a war rep...
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 27:50
Luqman Barwari abandoned his career to open a Kurdish restaurant in the U.S., a meeting place where immigrant Kurds can keep memories of home alive.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
Somali artist Aziz Osman left home for Florence, Italy, as a young man to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, sculptor and architect. Extensiv...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:05
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 12:49
- Purchases: 2
The 9-11 attacks weren’t the first time that America had been bombed. Listen to what happened at Brookings, Oregon on a Wednesday morning in Septem...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 10:26
During World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps dotted across the U.S. Suddenly the ene...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBBI Alaska, WVTF and more
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 89
Everyday, it seems war is in the news. Headlines report on wars from around the globe. But what happens when a war ends? Today, the group called...
- Added: Mar 03, 2014
- Length: 04:45
In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 58:03
History repeats, 650 years later. An entire village held hostage for eleven months by a madman and his weapon-toting mercenaries. During that time,...
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 17:01
Carl Conradi, of the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, considers the notion of 'bearing witness' as it relates to the Initiative's efforts ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 10:05
Bosnian musician Vedran Smailovic describes the incident on 27 May 1992, during the war in Bosnia, which inspired the act of commemoration and grie...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 06:00
The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article - are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yeme...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 08:12
- Purchases: 1
This piece examines the tenuous state of relations between the United States and Pakistan.
It follows Montana Public Radio Reporter Dan Boyce on a ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 47:43
This is a story of a 1940's child's journal, set against the backdrop of WWII, that records the play life of a group of boys reenacting war games i...
- Added: Mar 23, 2013
- Length: 52:58
Two Syrians, separated by war, go to great lengths for love.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 06:29
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 still haunts an entire country
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 20:15
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This month's program is about human rights.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 02:03:38
Refugees coming to the US have just a few months to find a job and a place to live. And they are 10 times as likely as the general population to su...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 07:36
