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The podcast that discusses global current affairs with women leaders!Ilana Bet-El chats with wonderfully qualified women experts from around the world in informal but in-depth conversations that explain, analyse and highlight events of the day.Women Leaders brings incredibly…
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9/11 25 years on with Brenda Berkman (opens the original)
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The background to the disaster that was 9/11 has been researched exhaustively, while the security and geopolitical outcomes — notably in Afghanistan, Iraq, the whole Middle East and many other parts of the world — are evident, with many effects felt to this day. But the event itself has receded into the past, and for younger generations is but history. The reality of two planes flown maliciously into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in Manhattan, and the attempt to fly one into the Pent
Mary, The Formative Female Figure with Miri Rubin (opens the original)
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Women Leaders concludes its summer season of women authors There is probably no more famous and pervasive female figure than Mary, mother of Christ. There are remarkably few known facts about this woman, but that has never stopped myths, ideas, imagery and music to evolve around her as a core element of the story of Christianity, and ultimately Western then global culture. In this last episode of our summer season of women authors, we discuss the evolution and significance of Mary, Mother of God
China’s Children Separated with Barbara Demick (opens the original)
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The summer season of women authors is truly global, taking us this time to China. The superpower image it now exudes overshadows realities in the near past, when poverty was rife and beyond the big cities hundreds of millions were in poverty and often illiterate. The outside world had little knowledge of this, and in the 1990s and early 2000s China was considered a safe source of babies for adoption while also doing a good deed. Tens of thousands of babies, mostly girls, were adopted by Western
Life, Love and War with Katherine Saad Feghali (opens the original)
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Women Leaders continues its summer series with women authors. Much has been written about the current horrors of Lebanon, but they really started long ago, in the civil war that raged between 1975-1990. As part of our women authors summer season, we turn to a novel written about coming of age in that period — to the brutality of war alongside the attempts at keeping normality alive, of food and family and nostalgia, of young love and loss, of the harsh destruction of commonality amongst differen
Our life in the classics with Mary Beard (opens the original)
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Women Leaders is having a relaxing summer with women authors. The Odyssey is a big summer hit, but it has been a hit for 3000 years: it is both a classic, and part of the classics, a broad field of study that Western culture has long been obsessed with. From legalities to laughter and from battles to bread, the ancient Greeks and Romans seem to have lived our lives then, while we seek out their lives now. Mary Beard is undoubtedly the most prominent classicist of our times, and her new book, Tal
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