Presentation from Akshay Chalana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njMyfD87cD0 Oman’s social structure from Akshay Chalana Script Good morning.  This is Akshay Chalana from ZTTV, with a special report on one country you certainly don’t hear about much on […]

            Naomi Shihab Nye’s book of poems, 19 Varieties of Gazelle, discusses time and again the idea that the conflict that affects her people, the […]

Footfall: Nye observes the strange rituals of a turtle, especially her 6th sense of being able to sense movement without hearing.  She compares this to her own 6th sense of […]

19 Varieties of Gazelle: Gazelle are used by Arab poets to signify grace, but this grace is beyond description, both in its own form and in the consideration of how […]

An Identity Poem describes the way a person thinks of themselves in a variety of different possible ways.  The method that Akshay Chalana uses to do this in What I […]

I see as they each kneel, Bending their knees before the great elephant. I see as they each speak, Listening for the dark painting’s response.   I see as they […]

In an interview with NPR, Dunya Mikhail, and Iraqi poet who fled her home country 17 years ago during the Gulf War, reads two of her poems (I Was in […]

Dear Mr. Sykes and Mr. Picot, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you are doing for my people, and owe you a great debt which […]