Personal History

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Sakeena Yacoobi is the winner of the 2004 Women’s Rights Prize from the Peter Gruber Foundation. She joins us to discuss her work as President and founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL). The AIL provides more than 350,000 Afghan women and children with education, health care, and human rights training annually. Then, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk on his latest book, Snow. The book is set in a remote Turkish village against the backdrop of religious, political, and deeply personal tensions. And Cynthia Ozick discusses her new novel, Heir to the Glimmering World, set in the rough and tumble world of the Depression-era Bronx. Finally, Tara Bray Smith examines her troubled relationship with her mother, and her ties to Hawaii, in her memoir: West of Then: A Mother, A Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise.

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