Dr. Smadar Ben-Natan, an Israeli international lawyer/ academician speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about the intersection of international law and human rights in Israel/Palestine, about the Israeli military courts and incarceration, about the significance of International Law in today’s global context and about the Jewish Settlers and the definition of Apartheid and Zionism. Here are the links mentioned in the podcasthttps://www.btselem.org/https://www.alandforall.org/english/?d=ltrhttps://www.regthink.org/en/https://www.academia4equality.com/enBlog posts by Dr. Smadar Ben-Natan on Apartheid:https://opiniojuris.org/2022/04/12/the-apartheid-reports-a-paradigm-shift-on-israel-palestine-part-i/https://opiniojuris.org/2022/04/13/the-apartheid-reports-a-paradigm-shift-on-israel-palestine-part-ii/

From IRA combatant to storyteller, Anne Walker speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about her journey and sharing her story for the first time, about helping others break free from a cycle of violence and hatred and about the transformative power of storytelling in its various forms.

Documentary maker and long-time traveller, Nafsika Hadjichristou speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about her love of photography and of travelling, about the countries through which she has travelled, especially the 2 years she spent in Latin America and how photography and travelling ‘weave together’ her human rights activism. To find out more about Nafsika, follow her on https://otherworlds.site/

Anglo Armenian film maker and writer from Cyprus, Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss speaks on kaleidHERscope from Los Angeles about finalizing her latest novel Love in Aleppo, about home, about love and loss and about memories….. Find out more about Victoria and her work: http://www.planetvix.com/

Ianthi Sparsis, an experienced Keith’s Cacao practitioner and Reiki Master, with many years of training in meditation, embodiment work, shamanic rites, and the ancient practices of women frame drummers speaks on kaleidHERscope about her first steps on the rhythmic path to transformation that connected her to the almost lost lineage of Aphrodite’s frame drumming priestesses, about her keen interest in healing sisterhood trauma and helping women empower other women by leading women’s frame drumming circles, and about the ‘super food’ Cacao and leading ceremonial cacao ceremonies and cacao circles.

Poet, ethnographer, and interdisciplinary qualitative researcher Nafia Akdeniz speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about the meaning of home, forced displacement, and about her poetry-based project "We Are Not Ghosts" - Varosha Narratives. https://d6.eu/sound-walking/

Slovenian documentary filmmaker, Anja Medved, speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about the priceless value of storytelling, about her collaboration with her mother, Nadja Velušček on collecting cross-border memories between Gorizia and Nova Gorica and her documentary Smugglers' Confessionary, and how these stories 're-weave' history.

With a background of mixing art & history, PhD candidate Aliénor Gandanger discusses the wartime godmothers of WW1, a theme about women, relationships, emotions and about portraying a wartime godmother through a comic book heroine and turning a history subject into a comic book. KaleidHERscope is brought to you by Magda Zenon.

Kainat Riaz, an education advocate and the keynote speaker at the ‘United for Peace, EU-UWC youth leadership’ forum in Cyprus recently, speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about October 9th 2012 when she was with Malala when she was targeted by the Taliban, about the value of education and the UWC and about ‘Beydaar Society’, the NGO she co-founded that helps to promote peace & harmony in Pakistan by using education as a tool.

Dr. Habiba Sarābi, the first Afghan woman to become a provincial governor and 1 of the 4 women at the negotiation table with the Taliban in Doha this year, speaks on kaleidHERscope about the life of the women in Afghanistan, the mental health of all Afghans and the rise in suicides and about how we can help.