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Host: Jean Feraca
Show was conceived to galvanize our international world community. We search out the gems of the world – international movements, world citizens, cross-cultural conversions, democracy-building initiatives, and the best world literature, movies, arts, food, and culture. We explore these things during two international conversations every week. And you're invited.
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Genres: International, Talk
Location: Madison, WI
Language: English
Networks: Wisconsin Public Radio

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An Ecology of Music

Wed, Dec 9 Listen

How would you turn Alaska into a piece of music? A glacial tempo, filled with cold motifs and melodies or something grand and imposing? Composer John Luther Adams answers this question every time he steps into his studio.

Learning Arabic

Tue, Dec 8 Listen

More and more people are learning Arabic these days. We talk with the authors of the most popular Arabic textbook in the world, the husband and wife team, Kristen Brustad and Mahmoud Al-Batal who insist it is not all that hard after all.

Invictus

Mon, Dec 7 Listen

Shortly after becoming the president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela found an unusual cause to unite the country after the apartheid: rugby. How did he turn a white supremacist team into a world champion and symbol of unity? Learn about the true story behind the film, Invictus.

The New Moosewood Cookbook

Fri, Dec 4 Listen

Are you thinking about going vegetarian? There are so many reasons to eat less meat, and the best, and tastiest way to get your vitamins is still to eat your greens �- and yellows, purples, oranges, and browns. Join us with the authors of the new Moosewood Restaurant Cookbook.

Obama's War in Afghanistan

Thu, Dec 3 Listen

President Obama is sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. What does it mean to finish the job? How do the Afghans feel about it? And will the Afghans be ready to govern themselves when we leave?

Traveling the Silk Road

Wed, Dec 2 Listen

For almost three thousand years, a web of trading routes connected the civilizations of China, Northern Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, transporting everything from silk and religion to disease across the ancient world. We will travel the Silk Road from Xian, the old capital of China, to ancient Baghdad with Dr. Mark Norell, curator of the Silk Road exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History.

Half the Sky

Tue, Dec 1 Listen

Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn join us to talk about why the oppression of women and girls in the developing world is the single most important human rights issue of our time, and how helping them can radically alter our world.

Soap is Power

Mon, Nov 30 Listen

Have you ever made soap? Did your grandmother make soap? Melinda Coss, author of The Handmade Soap Book, taught herself how to make soap and then started teaching soap-making in countries like Tanzania and Nigeria where soap is power!

Science in the Kitchen

Fri, Nov 27 Listen

Ever wonder what makes white meat white? Does searing really sear in flavor? Why is it that fruits ripen but vegetables don't? For the secrets to these and other food mysteries, join us with Harold McGee, author of the newly revised kitchen classic.

On Kindness

Thu, Nov 26 Listen

What is the thing that scares us most? The monster hiding under the bed? Not sex, not violence, not money, but kindness has become our forbidden pleasure, according to psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. By involving us with strangers, he says, kindness is potentially far more promiscuous than sexuality.

Gratitude

Wed, Nov 25 Listen

Saying Thank you. What do we really mean by those two simple words? Known as an anthropologist of everyday life, Margaret Visser, the author of The Gift of Thanks, looks into the roots and rituals of gratitude and the complex matters of giving, receiving and returning favors and presents in different cultures.

Becoming Americans

Tue, Nov 24 Listen

The story of American immigration has often been told by those already here. Becoming Americans, the new anthology edited by Mexican-American Jewish writer Ilan Stavans tells it from the inside, gathering four centuries of writing from 17th century Jamestown to contemporary Brooklyn and Los Angeles.

Reflecting on Fort Hood

Mon, Nov 23 Listen

As we try to make sense of the Fort Hood tragedy, how should we understand the Muslim faith of the alleged gunman, Nidal Hasan? We discuss our national and personal reactions with inter-faith expert and inter-cultural advocates.

Who's Bringing the Pie

Fri, Nov 20 Listen

Evan Kleiman's love for pie began when she was a little girl and asked for an apple pie instead of a birthday cake. She still has a birthday pie to celebrate her birthday every July, but this summer was different. She baked a pie a day for the whole summer.

The Hajj

Thu, Nov 19 Listen

One of the world's longest-lived religious rites, the hajj to Mecca, is even older than Islam. It has been described as a universal journey for transcendence and peace, but will that change this year given the fear surrounding H1N1? What does it mean to 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide?

The Lion's Eye: Seeing in the Wild

Wed, Nov 18 Listen

All her life, Joanna Greenfield dreamed of traveling to Africa to study wild animals. She got a once in a lifetime chance to follow wild chimpanzees in East Africa while she was still in college, an adventure strangely enhanced by her impaired vision.

Global Competence

Tue, Nov 17 Listen

Barack Obama has it. George W. Bush didn't. It's called global competence and according to experts in higher education, it's something everybody needs, the ability to understand complex issues in a globalized world. We talk to educators and students about what global competence really means.

The Language of Cancer

Mon, Nov 16 Listen

Mary Cappello, the author of Called Back, a stunning memoir about surviving breast cancer, says cancer is like entering a foreign country where you have to learn a foreign language. Some people shut down and live like strangers in a strange land. Mary fought back, questioning everything, the pamphlets, the blogs, the kitsch and the pink ribbon.

Au Revoir To All That

Fri, Nov 13 Listen

French food is not what it used to be, or so says journalist and wine columnist Michael Steinberger. In his latest book, Au Revoir To All That, he investigates the decline of quality in French cuisine and finds reasons that go beyond food.

The Vanishing Face of Gaia

Thu, Nov 12 Listen

Scientist James Lovelock is best known as the originator of the Gaia Theory, which has taught scientists and laypeople alike to see the Earth holistically as a giant living organism. He joins us to discuss his new book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, in which he issues a dire warning: It is too late to halt global warming, we must now learn to live in an altered climate.

Wandering Souls

Wed, Nov 11 Listen

Storytelling seems to be a huge coping skill for Vietnam vets, and Wayne Karlin has quite a story to tell in Wandering Souls, about the courage of a soldier who returned the soul of the man he killed to that man's family.

Herta Muller: Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature

Tue, Nov 10 Listen

Throughout her life and her work, German-Romanian writer Herta Muller has fought a lonely fight against repression. Even though winning the Nobel Prize in Literature this year has catapulted her into the media spotlights, few people are familiar with her unsettling and meticulous prose and poetry. In the light of Romania's painful past under communist dictatorship, we explore the meaning of Muller's life and work for our world today.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Mon, Nov 9 Listen

Do you remember November 9th, 1989? Journalist Michael Meyer and scholar Konrad Jarausch join us as we relive that day when the Berlin Wall fell and retrace Germany's difficult transitions through unification and integration, up to today.

Save the Deli

Fri, Nov 6 Listen

Pastrami on Rye with a kosher pickle, anyone? Join us, and add to our list of reasons why it is imperative to save the Jewish deli.

Arab Bodies

Thu, Nov 5 Listen

The German poet Novalis once wrote that the only real temple in this world is the human body. If that is true, Joumana Haddad, who just launched Jasad magazine in Beirut (Jasad means Body in Arabic), is doing her best to restore the body to its rightful place, and raising a lot of eyebrows in the process.

Poker: An American Metaphor

Wed, Nov 4 Listen

Playing poker was a key networking tool in Barack Obama's early political career. Bill Gates collected many of his business strategies and a sizable fund to start Microsoft from his all-night poker games. Eisenhower and JFK used poker tactics to resolve crises with China and the Soviet Union. How did a French aristocratic parlor game turn into a training ground for American risk-takers and power brokers?

The Muslim Next Door

Tue, Nov 3 Listen

Although Americans hear about Islam on a daily basis, there remains no clear explanation of Islam or its people. Jean Feraca talks to a scholar of Islamic law about growing up in California and balancing her South Asian, Muslim, and American identities.

Think Again: Asia's Rise

Mon, Nov 2 Listen

Don't believe the hype you hear about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. Minxin Pei, director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, joins us to pick apart this familiar narrative.

Gourmet Today

Fri, Oct 30 Listen

Exciting new ingredients are available everywhere, expanding our culinary horizons, and a new culinary world calls for a new cookbook. Ruth Reichl, long-time editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and a best-selling author in her own right, joins us to talk about her new book, Gourmet Today.

International Language of Body Music

Thu, Oct 29 Listen

Keith Terry is a body musician, someone who makes music purely with their body. His obsession runs so deep that last year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the first to go to a body musician.