Set in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra’s Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Andy Ross and Sean Weitner put up on the Internet (at the Flak Magazine website) their audio commentary on David Lynch’s film “Mulholland Drive.” They talk about it with Jim Fleming, and we hear clips of the film and the commentary.
Arabic interperter Kayla Williams served in Iraq as a sergeant in a military intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division.
Anousheh Ansari became the first Muslim woman to venture into space when she traveled aboard the International Space Station.
Adam Mansbach is a white boy from an affluent Boston suburb who’s devoted himself to hip hop culture.
Somalia didn’t have a written language until the 1970's, and today, many if not most Somalis still live within an oral tradition. And in that tradition the poet is king.
Andre Brink is a white South African novelist whose anti-apartheid books inspired Nelson Mandela and became a lightning rod for criticism from the ruling regime.
For 26 years, Dan Pierotti knew — really knew — that his days were numbered. In 1988 he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. In this second installment of his story, Dan and his wife Judy talk about the dealing with medication, hospice and Dan's decreasing mobility. And they consider whether or not he will stop taking the medicine that keeps him alive.
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