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Afghanistan: a view with trees, art, and culture

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Program Type:

Interview

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Asma Eschen, Tamim Ansary, Sirheen Pasha, Robert Abdul Hayy Darr, Bina Eliaas

Contributor:

Raising Sand Radio Contact Contributor

Date Published:

April 18, 2009, 4:54 p.m.

Summary: Asma Eschen reports back from Afghanistan where she planted 6000 trees.
A panel on art and culture in Afghanistan

Credits:

Notes: Asma Eschen is a Board Member and Director of Agriculture at Afghans4Tomorrow. She is the Co-founder of the Bare Roots Group and has led 4 delegations to plant and distribute 125,000 trees in Afghanistan since 2005. With her mission to green Kabul's hills, this year Asma and her team planted over 6,000 trees in and around Kabul. She comments on her experiences there this time around.

An excerpt from recent event at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center called Liminal Spaces, Afghan Culture and the Future of South Asia. A preview screening of Shireen Pasja's movie, Slowly Slowly Mud and Lotus and a four person panel -
Tamim Ansary, author of West of Kabul, East of New York, and born and raised in Afghanistan.
Robert Abdul Hayy Darr, a student of traditional Islamic culture and author of The Spy of the Heart and translator of classic sufi poetry.
Shireen Pasha is a storyteller and film maker, Slowly Slowly Mud and Lotus
Bina Sarkar Ellias is founder publisher, editor and designer of Gallerie, an award winning global arts and ideas journal published in India.
Thanks for Farhat Ashufta, videographer, for sharing the audio for this segment

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Length (hh:mm:ss): 00:59:42

Language: 1

Date Recorded: April 20, 2009

Location Recorded:

KZSU

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