Category: PODCAST: Your Voice

Sun 01 September 2019: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson suspended Parliament this week – which means the Brexit vote is just nine weeks away. Three years after the United Kingdom voted to break off from the European Union, the country is still trying to understand what Brexit means and how it will happen. In this episode of The Take, Al […]

Fri 30 August 2019: Hong Kong is facing one of the biggest crisis since Britain handed the city back to China in 1997.  For 10 weeks, protesters have shut down the city, stormed the legislature, and even shut down the airport.  Dozens have been arrested, scores of police and protesters have been wounded in clashes. […]

Pakistani woman who criticised the actress on what compelled her to call Chopra out Ayesha Malik, the Pakistani woman who confronted Priyanka Chopra Jonas about allegedly encouraging India-Pakistan nuclear war at a beauty event in Los Angeles and labelled her a ‘hypocrite’, claims she was “extremely disappointed” at the UN ambassador and global star’s response […]

Sat 13 July 2019: Journalists and human rights activists from Mexico to the Middle East are being targeted by spyware purchased by their governments. This week, we talk to Josh Rushing from Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines about the software suite that can turn your mobile phone into someone else’s secret weapon. The Team: Amy Walters produced this episode […]

Sun 07 July 2019:  In this interview, we explore the early history of Islam in West Africa with Professor Ousmane Kane, who has mapped out the networks of Islamic learning in the region. We discuss intellectual history, the curricula of madrasas and a day in the life of a 16th-century student in Sankore. We then […]

Thu 04 July 2019: We all have that one person in our lives who is just so difficult to be around. Maybe it’s a friend, a spouse, a child, a sister… In this episode I discuss how to deal with difficult people, how to best help them, and how to protect your mental health while […]

Mon 10 June 2019: We can’t talk about Zero Waste living without talking about the big picture: the amount of food that gets wasted at the front end of the food chain: during production, harvest, and processing. And we can’t talk about Zero Waste living unless we face the fact that the highest food losses […]

Thu 30 May 2019: Why I distance myself from Al-Quds day Quraysha Ismail Sooliman  Post-doctorate Research Fellow, Faculty of Humanities University of Pretoria/Mellon Foundation Public Intellectual Project. Committed to ethical leadership and social justice, the cultivating of knowledge with a sense of the ethical and the pursuit of wisdom. Committed to environmental and animal welfare […]