Category Archives: Kerning Cultures Season 2

Escape to Cairo

In October 1960, the walls were closing in for Patrice Lumumba. Months earlier, he had...

Abandoned Ships: Part 2

After their employer abandoned the vessel they was working on, Vikash Mishra and his crew...

Jerusalem Calling

Because of what’s happening in Palestine this week, we’re holding off airing our usual programming....

Abandoned Ships: Part 1

When seafarer Mehmet Gulsen stepped on board the Kenan Mete, he thought he was signing...

Exodus

Loving Lebanon is one thing; living there is another. Generation after generation, surviving in the...

Found Sound

Two stories of music getting lost… and then found again. A record producer unearths a...

Collateral Damage

In 1942, Lebanon’s National Museum opened in Beirut, celebrating the country’s golden age, and inside,...

Viva Brother Nagi

Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who moved to California in the...

Flagged and Stamped

Over the last half century, as many nations around our region have gained independence or...

No Victor But God

The graceful courtyards of Mexico and Puerto Rico aren’t the first places you’d go looking...