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As Yemen's war continues, a new project by The New Humanitarian shares personal testimonies that show how the devastating conflict has changed life for millions, while the rest of the world wasn't paying attention. And how important it is that we keep listening. Nuha al-Junaid, project coordinator for the The Yemen Listening Project, tells her own story of war and migration with guest host and Middle East Editor, Annie Slemrod. What's Unsaid is a bi-weekly podcast by The New Humanitarian where we explore open secrets and uncomfortable conversations around the world's conflicts and disasters.
We're counting down to NYE – chauffeur company Zofeur joins us to look at the logistics of the night. Plus, what Russia banning oil sales to price cap countries means for supply - and prices? We asked Nader Itayim, Middle East Editor at Argus Media. And we had a look with the sad passing of two legends, Pele & Vivienne Westwood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mehmal Sarfraz, Co-founder The Current PK, in Lahore, and Hayley Woodin, executive editor of Business in Vancouver, join Will Bain for global economic discussion. We're in Puerto Rico and the US to hear about the devastation that Hurricane Ian is leaving, as thousands of people are without power. Our panel discuss former UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres' suggestion that Pakistan should receive climate reparations. We also hear from the Los Angeles Times' Middle East Editor, Nabih Bulos, on Afghanistan's problem with its cash - the notes are disintegrating. Image: Caden Simmons, a local resident, walks with a U.S. flag on a flooded street after he recovered it from flood waters, as Hurricane Ian bears down on Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
Nabil Alawzari is a Yemeni freelance photojournalist working on rights and freedoms. This discussion was about the current situation in Yemen and Nabil's lived experience there.
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Scott Rosenfelt is one of Hollywood's most successful independent producers. On the strength of such films as Home Alone, Smoke Signals, Mystic Pizza, Teen Wolf, and Extremities, Scott has garnered international acclaim and recognition.Rosenfelt's most recent film, Critical Thinking, about the Latino and African-American Miami Jackson High School chess team that won the national chess championship in 1998, was an early selection of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival for its world premiere. It is directed by John Leguizamo, who also stars, Michael K. Williams, Jorge Lendeborg, Angel Bismark Curiel, and Rachel Bay Jones. Vertical is handling domestic distribution and CMG, foreign, as the film is slated for a September 2020 release.Rosenfelt's script, CounterPlay, will go into production in January 2021 in the Philippines, with Pedring Lopez (Maria) directing. Rosenfelt will be producing with Michael McDermott and Andy Green of Fusion Entertainment as Executive Producer. The film stars Sam Worthington, Luke Hemsworth, Luke Bracey, and Derek Ramsay.Rosenfelt is also producing 5-4-3-2-1 in partnership with CMG Entertainment. Kieran Darcy-Smith will direct for the thriller to be shot in Chicago in 2021.Rosenfelt wrote the script for and will be producing Fever, a feature film based on the Bre-X gold stock scandal. Kieran Darcy-Smith will be directing, with Gabriel Almagor joining him as producer along with Mark Spillane and Kristie Spillane of Unbreakable Films in Australia. The film is slated for a First Quarter 2021 start, with principal photography in Australia, the Philippines, and Calgary.Rosenfelt has written and will be producing Nanda Devi, based on one of the CIA's most secretive missions, set in the Himalayas in 1965 at a time when the Chinese were first testing their nuclear capability. The film will be produced in association with Mulberry Films.Rosenfelt is producing The Five, which he co-wrote with Robert Bruzio. It is the story of the famed “500 Club” in Atlantic City, and its colorful owner, Paul “Skinny” D'Amato. Skinny was the inspiration for the Rat Pack and was credited for putting Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis together as an act. His club was front and center for the most colorful time in Atlantic City history.Rosenfelt has also written and will be producing, G.O.L.F., to be directed by Sean McNamara. It is the story of a young Latina golfer struggling to make her way to qualify for the U.S. Womens' Open. Luna Blaise is attached to play the lead.Rosenfelt was producer and writer on The Jade Pendant, which had its theatrical world premiere in Los Angeles on November 2, 2017. It is also the winner of the Golden Angel Award for the Best Film by an Independent Producer in the 2017 Chinese-American Film Festival. The tragic love story is set against the backdrop of the Los Angeles Chinatown War of 1871, and stars Korean actress Clara Lee and Taiwanese actor Godfrey Gao. It was directed by Po Chih Leong.His documentary, 7 Days In Syria, distributed theatrically in August 2016, showcased the extraordinary work of Janine di Giovanni, the award-winning journalist specializing in reporting from conflict zones who had been covering the war in Syria as the Middle East Editor for Newsweek. Rosenfelt wrote and produced it with Robert Rippberger directing.As writer, director, and producer, his first documentary, Standing Silent, a recipient of a Sundance Documentary Filmmaker Grant, had its theatrical release on January 25, 2013, It had its World Premiere at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and has played the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival along with the Doc NY Film Festival as well as having won the Best Documentary at the World Jewish Film Festival in Ashkelon, Israel.Rosenfelt directed the feature film, Family Prayers, starring Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, and Paul Reiser, which had its World Premiere at the 1993 Palm Springs International Film Festival and the 1993 Seattle International Film Festival.Home Alone, in which Rosenfelt served as Executive Producer, remains the highest-grossing live-action comedy of all time, generating over $1 billion worldwide. Mystic Pizza, which he also produced, launched the career of Julia Roberts and went on to critical and commercial success, while Teen Wolf, which Rosenfelt also produced, starring Michael J. Fox, is one of the highest-grossing independent films of all time. Extremities, which Rosenfelt produced, starred Farrah Fawcett and garnered international, critical, and commercial acclaim as well.At ShadowCatcher Entertainment, a company he co-founded in 1994, he produced the award-winning Smoke Signals. Written by highly acclaimed novelist/poet Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals was the winner of the Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by Miramax Films. It was nominated for multiple Spirit Award Nominations and won Best Debut Performance for Evan Adams.From 2012-2015, Rosenfelt served as Professional-in-Residence at Quinnipiac University. He has been a guest lecturer at the Beijing Film Academy as well as at Harvard's Department of Government, and the American University in Paris. He has spoken numerous times at the Tisch School at NYU, USC, UCLA, Chapman University, and Loyola Marymount as well as the AFI. He recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 Lighthouse International Film Festival.Rosenfelt is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.Connect with Scott Rosenfelt:https://www.scottrosenfelt.com/
Jeremy Bowen is a man who has spent most of his professional life in the company of crisis. As the BBC’s Middle East Editor he has reported from more than 90 countries and conflicts including Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon. In this first episode, Jeremy talks frankly about his addiction to danger – how and why he repeatedly put his life at risk in pursuit of a story. And he details how that addiction turned to deep anxiety and grief when his friend and fixer Abed Takkoush was killed while working alongside him. Jeremy talks openly about mental health, and his good and bad experiences with counselling. And how, ultimately, he conquered his demons, only to face down an altogether different challenge when he was diagnosed with bowel cancer. Throughout the episode Jeremy reveals the tools he’s relied on most to manage those moments of crisis. A revealing and thought-provoking conversation to kick off the series. Jeremy's Crisis Cures: 1. Quotidian, humdrum things: ‘I was working in Damascus, the war was going on, you can hear the war through the window, you could see the smoke rising from the suburbs…but it was quite nice putting an edited story together about the Syrian war with the sound of the washing machine in the background.’ 2. Exercise: ‘The natural anti-depressant. In Sarajevo I used to take a skipping rope, I used to skip in the stairwell of the hotel. In Baghdad I would jog around the streets – they thought I was insane.’ 3. Old World War II movies: ‘Often John Mills is involved in some way, and Jack Hawkins. I find those quite reassuring to leave on in the background. Maybe even past crises…those reminders that you do get out of them in the end.’ Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BowenBBC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremy.bowen Bowel Cancer UK: https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/ Look UK: https://www.look-uk.org/ Episode Notes: I’ve known Jeremy for about 15 years but this was, as is the nature of us blokes, the most intense conversation we’ve ever had. The utter authenticity of Jeremy’s storytelling was inspiring. For me, the key insights came when we discussed how, having been a crisis volunteer, he suddenly found himself to be a conscript. Facing the possibility of death – not from a sniper’s bullet (which he had narrowly avoided in Sarajevo) but from bowel cancer. His approach to getting through that challenge was clearly influenced by what he’d witnessed so frequently as a reporter. One of Jeremy’s great skills as a broadcaster is to explain how the terrible things we are witnessing on TV are happening to people who, not that long before, were living lives similar to our own. Jeremy has spent more time than most with those families. “I think you can see people who are sometimes better able to get through crisis than others,” he said. “To survive in a war zone you’ve got to do a lot of small things to get through each day. Don’t get overwhelmed by the big picture – that you’re in a horrendous situation. Chip away at the problem.” An analysis that echoed later in the conversation when we turned to his cancer. “You’ve got to do one little thing at a time. Get through the day, get through tomorrow and then have a horizon for when things will be better. In my case – get out of hospital, get through the chemotherapy, then the first scan and the next scan.” Just. Keep. Going. As Jeremy himself said, sometimes clichés are clichés for a bloody good reason. Music: Allies by Some Velvet Morning - www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk
If you don’t want to hear about our esteemed Middle East Editor broadcasting in the buff then delete this episode now. Or just skip 30 minutes in to hear Chris Mason’s review of Friends. Producer: Ione Wells and Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
When Adam Baidawi was growing up, he dreamed of writing for his favourite publication GQ. Today, not only is he the first ever Editor-In-Chief for GQ Middle East, but he is the youngest ever Editor-In-Chief for GQ globally. Find out how he managed to achieve his dream job at the age of 28, what it was liking getting 30 seconds to interview David Beckham and how he manage to stay down-to-earth in the crazy world of celebrities.SHOW NOTESAdam's Website: http://www.adambaidawi.com/Adam's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adambaidawi/Lisa's Instagram: https://instagram.com/lisateh_In Conversation With Creatives Website: http://www.inconversationwithcreatives.com/
Cardiff-born Jeremy Bowen, BBC Foreign Correspondent for more than 20 years and the BBC’s Middle East Editor is a journalist and television presenter. He joined the BBC in 1984 and has reported from more than 70 different countries, predominantly in the Middle East and in the Balkans. He reported during the Bosnian War and the Kosovo conflict, during which he was robbed at gunpoint by bandits. In 2013, while reporting for the BBC the protests in Egypt, he was shot in the head with shotgun pellets. He escaped without major injury. He was one of the few journalists inside Syria reporting on the civil war. In February 2015, he spoke with President Bashar al-Assad about the ongoing Syrian conflict during an exclusive BBC interview.
BICOM CEO James Sorene, Director of BICOM in Israel Richard Pater, Director of Research Calev Ben Dor and Senior Research Associate Dr Toby Greene meet in Israel to discuss the significance of continued tension in Gaza and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s demands on Iran. They are joined by special guest Jacky Hugi, the Middle East Editor for Israel's Army Radio and columnist for the Maariv newspaper.
In Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017), Ian Black, the former Middle East Editor of the Guardian, offers a comprehensive view of the past and present of what would ultimately become known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Drawing on a range of sources, the book aims to offer a balanced and clear narrative of a history that has become infamously contested. Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism and Judaism (SUNY Press, 2017). You can read more of Yadgar’s work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017), Ian Black, the former Middle East Editor of the Guardian, offers a comprehensive view of the past and present of what would ultimately become known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Drawing on a range of sources, the book aims to offer a balanced and clear narrative of a history that has become infamously contested. Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism and Judaism (SUNY Press, 2017). You can read more of Yadgar’s work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017), Ian Black, the former Middle East Editor of the Guardian, offers a comprehensive view of the past and present of what would ultimately become known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Drawing on a range of sources, the book aims to offer a balanced and clear narrative of a history that has become infamously contested. Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism and Judaism (SUNY Press, 2017). You can read more of Yadgar’s work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017), Ian Black, the former Middle East Editor of the Guardian, offers a comprehensive view of the past and present of what would ultimately become known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Drawing on a range of sources, the book aims to offer a balanced and clear narrative of a history that has become infamously contested. Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism and Judaism (SUNY Press, 2017). You can read more of Yadgar’s work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017), Ian Black, the former Middle East Editor of the Guardian, offers a comprehensive view of the past and present of what would ultimately become known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Drawing on a range of sources, the book aims to offer a balanced and clear narrative of a history that has become infamously contested. Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism and Judaism (SUNY Press, 2017). You can read more of Yadgar’s work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017), Ian Black, the former Middle East Editor of the Guardian, offers a comprehensive view of the past and present of what would ultimately become known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Drawing on a range of sources, the book aims to offer a balanced and clear narrative of a history that has become infamously contested. Yaacov Yadgar is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism and Judaism (SUNY Press, 2017). You can read more of Yadgar’s work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, Mike catches up with Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East Editor. Jeremy is one of the most experienced and respected news broadcasters in the world. Here, he tells Mike what the ingredients are of a great story, how to balance analysis with human storytelling, the dangers of war reporting and what business leaders and politicians can learn about media interviews and engaging audiences.
Janine di Giovanni has spent more than two decades reporting from some of the most dangerous places on earth: Sarajevo, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Iraq, and Syria. She's the Middle East Editor of Newsweek, and writes for the New York Times, as well as for glossy magazines - winning numerous prizes, including two Amnesty International Media Awards. She's also written seven books - including most recently "Dispatches from Syria: The Morning They Came for Us", a moving account of the horror, and boredom, of war: War means endless waiting, endless boredom. There is no electricity, so no television. You can't read. You can't see friends. You grow depressed but there is no treatment for it and it makes no sense to complain-everyone is as badly off as you. It's hard to fall in love, or rather, hard to stay in love. When she's not travelling, Janine di Giovanni lives in Paris, with her 12-year-old son. For Private Passions, Michael Berkeley met her earlier this summer on her brief visit to the Hay-on-Wye festival. In a moving interview, di Giovanni reveals how she deals with danger, and her deep belief in her Guardian Angel. The youngest of a large Italian-American family, Janine di Giovanni's sister died as a child; she talks about being brought up in the shadow of that death, feeling that she and her brother were lost, like Hansel and Gretel in the fairytale. She reflects too on love, and particularly her love for her son, and how they both cope with her journeys to the front line. Janine di Giovannni's music choices include Humperdinck's opera "Hansel and Gretel"; Glenn Gould playing Bach's "Goldberg Variations"; Schubert's Trio Op 100 (which she says captures the horror and pity of war); Mozart's Clarinet Concerto; and Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing". Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
What kind of societies will the Arab Spring give birth to? Democratic, Capitalist, Islamic, or Unstable? Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East Editor, and Egyptian political economist Tarek Osman join Samira Ahmed to discuss this issue and to explore what the possible implications may be for the western world. Recorded at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at The Sage Gateshead on Saturday 3rd November 2012.
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