The Hiraeth Podcast explores the human experience of finding home through interviews with artists, writers, and others. Share your story.

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Podcast Episode 42:  Using the Fine China

Podcast Episode 42: Using the Fine China

I talk with Dori about her work finding meaning in material as different as maps and the covers of science fiction novels, what lockdown is like with just her, her cat Milo and all her Zoom classes, and her resolve to ‘use the fine China’, meaning the objects and useful items family and friends have gifted her.

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Podcast Episode 41:  Cancer in the Time of Corona

Podcast Episode 41: Cancer in the Time of Corona

Ana is currently undergoing active treatment for cancer, and during our interview she shares her journey toward healing, what she has learned along the way, and how it feels to be a cancer patient during a pandemic. We talk about how coronavirus and lockdown have impacted her, and what she wishes people knew about cancer in the time of corona, and how we can take care of the vulnerable among us.

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Podcast Episode 40:  Exploring the streets of cairo

Podcast Episode 40: Exploring the streets of cairo

Erica Eastley has lived an adventurous life in several different countries in Central Asia, the Middle East and beyond. She talks about why Central Asia and Cairo both feel like home to her, when Saudi Arabia and Mexico did not. She tells us what’s going on with the pandemic in Egypt, what has changed and what hasn’t, and how she is trying to help the refugees she works with make it through this difficult time.

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Podcast Episode 39:  A Way of Reordering Your World

Podcast Episode 39: A Way of Reordering Your World

Rowena Dring is an artist who challenges traditional boundaries by incorporating the traditional ‘women’s work’ of sewing and needlework with large-scale painting. She first started this type of art after her father died, and observes that ‘when you feel like your world has been shattered apart, actually working with collage, putting things back together with sewing and stitching is a way of reordering your world.’

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Podcast Episode 38: 24-Hour Curfew in Saudi Arabia

Podcast Episode 38: 24-Hour Curfew in Saudi Arabia

‘Emily’ tells us what it’s like being a woman in a country where her husband has to sign off on her every decision, from how to landscape the front yard to each and every withdrawal she wants to make from their joint bank account. And she talks about what life is like now during the pandemic under 24-hour curfew.

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Podcast Episode 37: The Swedish Approach (to Pandemics and Life)

Podcast Episode 37: The Swedish Approach (to Pandemics and Life)

Lisa Ferland recently began working for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), specifically on the coronavirus pandemic. We talk with her about how the Swedish approach to the pandemic differs from what other countries are doing, and how cultural differences affect the way the coronavirus progresses in different places.

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Podcast Episode 36: The Dutch Art of Doing Nothing

Podcast Episode 36: The Dutch Art of Doing Nothing

In a world of so many complicated wellness and self-care trends, Niksen is a breath of fresh air. Sit down for a moment with me and Olga to talk about the freeing realisation that sometimes it’s OK to just do nothing at all.

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Podcast Episode 35: Homeschooling in the Time of Corona

Podcast Episode 35: Homeschooling in the Time of Corona

Rachel Bringhurst is a homeschooling mom and mother of four who has moved around a lot and is now sheltering in place in California. By education and training, she is also a qualified teacher, so she brings experience from both sides of the teacher’s desk to this huge challenge of homeschooling under lockdown.

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Podcast Episode 33: Americanah at Leiden University

Podcast Episode 33: Americanah at Leiden University

In this special guest episode of the Hiraeth podcast, five research master students from Leiden University with their own migration stories from around the world discuss Nigerian writer Chimananda Ngozi Adiche’s 2013 novel Americanah.

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Podcast Episode 31: Reckless in Saying Yes

Podcast Episode 31: Reckless in Saying Yes

'One of the effects of leaving and moving and not having a solid continuous tradition and community around us has been that we have been free to improvise.' https://soundcloud.com/hiraethmagazine/hiraeth-ep-31-reckless-in-saying-yes Describing herself as a child of...

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Podcast Episode 29: Window to Another Reality

Podcast Episode 29: Window to Another Reality

“I like to think of my work as a window to another reality, perhaps escapist and enchanting, like a hotel room, which is a symbol of a different reality than our daily life; perhaps a dreamlike experience, a place which is a temporary home.” – Michal Raz, artist

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Podcast Episode 23: A Moving Legacy

Podcast Episode 23: A Moving Legacy

In this episode, Sarah talks to Lucille Abendanon who has three nationalities and has lived in six different countries. Lucille shares not only her own story of movement, but also the incredible stories of her Dutch Oma and Opa who survived life in...

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  • Ep. 42 - Using The Fine China 24/06/2020
    Dori Griffin is a designer and design historian interested in popular print culture and the narrative construction of social and cultural identity. Her first book, Mapping Wonderlands: Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912-1962, explores tourist maps and the stories they tell about the state’s history, landscape and culture. Dori has also studied culture through looking at […]
  • Ep. 41 - Cancer In The Time Of Corona 17/06/2020
    Ana Martins has been a local in Amsterdam for several years, but originally comes from Portugal. Amsterdam, she says, is the first place that has ever felt like home. She has been an actress and yoga teacher, and now writes a blog called Amsterdive exploring her own relationship with Amsterdam and the Netherlands while focusing […]
  • Hiraeth Ep. 40 - Exploring The Streets Of Cairo 04/06/2020
    Erica Eastley has lived an adventurous life in several different countries in Central Asia, the Middle East and beyond. We’ve never met in person; in fact, I think I first came across Erica when I stumbled on her fascinating blog, The Golden Road to Samarqand, where she was explaining how she cut the bindings off […]
  • Hiraeth Ep. 39- A Way Of Reordering Your World 20/05/2020
    Rowena Dring is British, and spent time in Berlin and France before settling here in Amsterdam. She is an artist who challenges traditional boundaries by incorporating the traditional ‘women’s work’ of sewing and needlework with large-scale painting. She first started this type of art after her father died, and observes that ‘when you feel like […]
  • Hiraeth Ep. 38 - 24 - Hour Curfew In Saudi Arabia 13/05/2020
    ‘Emily’ is an American, but grew up moving around a lot, and spent her teenage years living in Mexico. Now with four kids of her own, she has made the move to Saudi Arabia to give them a taste of international life. We have changed her name so she can speak freely about her adventures […]