Tidings podcast Archives - Hazel Kahan

Architect Hyder Ibrahim talks about working on Bibi Pak Daman, the 5-year renovation project of a shrine in Lahore, Pakistan, dedicated to 7th century saint Lady Ruqaiyya. Hyder also examines the project’s significance for for women, for the local community and for him personally. (WPKN September 7, 2026.) The post Architect Hyder Ibrahim on renovating a shrine in Lahore appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

In this month’s Tidings episode Sam Bliss speaking to us from Vermont about Adam Wilson’s idea of food as gift and his own theory of non-market food practices. (WPKN, August 3, 2026) The post Dr. Sam Bliss: social scientist, author and activist on food as gift and non-market food practices appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Thomas Little is a North Carolina-based artist, writer, illustrator, philosopher and proprietor of A Rural Pen Inkworks. a small operation that makes iron-based ink and pigments by dissolving firearms in acid. Speaking in this Tidings interview as both amateur ink historian and ink and pigment maker, Thomas examines his own work through the lens of […] The post Thomas Little–artist, ink maker, alchemist: on making ink from guns dissolved in acid appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Rhodes Scholar Suchintan Das talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings about mass detention, the subject of his D.Phil thesis at Oxford University: Empire, War, and Mass-Detention: A History of Encampment and Internment in India (1937-1967). Through case studies, Das shows how encampment and internment in wartime and post-war India illuminate mass detention policies and practices […] The post Suchintan Das, Oxford Rhodes Scholar: Empire, War and Mass Detention in Imperial India appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Lifein which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN, March 2. 2026 (WPKN, March 2, 2026) The post Tara Lohan, author: “Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life” appeared first on Hazel Kahan.