Mar 29 Watch 7:51 Supreme Court Justice Puts Hamlet on Trial By PBS News Hour Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy presided over a "trial" of Hamlet in a Kennedy Center production taking place during a six-month celebration of Shakespeare in Washington, D.C. Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Group in India Targets Sex Trade An organization in India is fighting forced prostitution by counseling and training women in other forms of work and helping their children so they don't follow in their mothers' footsteps. Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television provides… Continue watching
Mar 22 Ghassan Zaqtan Reads ‘Four Sisters from Zacharia’ in Arabic By newshourpoetry Ghassan Zaqtan was born in 1954 near Bethlehem and lives in Ramallah. He has worked with the Palestinian resistance movement and was editor of "Bayader" literary magazine of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is editor-in-chief of the quarterly poetry journal… Continue reading
Mar 22 Ghassan Zaqtan By newshourpoetry Poet Ghassan Zaqtan reads some of his poems. Continue reading
Mar 22 Samih al-Qasim By newshourpoetry Poet Samih al-Qasim reads some of his poems. Continue reading
Mar 22 Samih al-Qasim Reads ‘End of the Talk with a Jailer’ By newshourpoetry Samih al-Qasim was born in 1939 in Zarqa, Jordan. He grew up in the village of Rama in northern Palestine and was a leading figure of the "resistance poets" of the 1950s. He has written more than thirty books of… Continue reading
Mar 22 Watch For Palestinians, Identity Is Regained Through Poetry Poets in the Arab world have historically been important cultural figures, and this tradition continues among Palestinians. In the second of his reports on Middle East poetry, Jeffrey Brown discusses poetry's role in Arab society with three leading Palestinian poets. Continue watching
Mar 22 Taha Muhummad Ali Reads 2 Poems from His Book ‘So What’ Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya. After fleeing to Lebanon during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Muhammad Ali and his family settled in Nazareth where they have lived since. He has published several… Continue reading
Mar 22 For Palestinians, Identity Is Regained Through Poetry Poets in the Arab world have historically been important cultural figures, and this tradition continues among Palestinians. In the second of his reports on Middle East poetry, Jeffrey Brown discusses poetry's role in Arab society with three leading Palestinian poets… Continue reading