KaleidHERscope

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. The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 41: From IRA combatant to storyteller: Anne Walker speaks about the transforma...

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, […] The post KaleidHERscop...

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/ The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 39: Anglo-Armenian film-maker & writer from Cyprus, Victoria Harwood Bu...

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...

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/ The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 37: Poet, ethnographer, and researcher Nafia Akdeniz on the meaning of “hom...

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. The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 36: Slo...

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. The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 35: Mixing art & history, Aliénor...

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 post KaleidHERscope – Episode 34: Education advocate K...

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 […] The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 33: Dr. Habiba Sarābi, 1 of 4 women at the Doha negotiat...

Evie Theocharous, a researcher and a board member of Cyprus Youth DiplomaCY, speaks on kaleidHERscope about why it is imperative that there is a substantive inclusion of youth in the Cyprus Peace Process and about transitional justice, especially its gender perspective. Disclaimer: The House of Youth Representatives is a simulation of the House of Representatives co […] The post KaleidH...

Naw Angeline, a Women Human Rights Defender, an educator and a member of WASL speaks on kaleidHERscope about Myanmar, one of the ‘invisible’ global conflicts; what is happening in the country now, the lack of security, the internal displacement, the humanitarian needs, the role of the women and Gen Z and the message she wants […] The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 31: Naw Angeline, a women hu...

Following the brutally public discussion and treatment of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting’s during the Paris Olympics especially online, on kaleidHERscope Magda Zenon speaks with Phyllis Ellis, film-maker and former Olympic field hockey player about gender and the focus on ‘what you look like’ rather than on performance, the 90-year history of sex testing and […] The post KaleidHERscope – Episo...

Lebanese cultural practitioner, writer, and researcher, Myriam Dalal, speaks to Magda Zenon on KaleidHERscope from Luxembourg about being an artist and how forced migration disrupts, yet creates opportunities for new creative expression including a totally contemporary ‘love dance’, about Intangible Cultural Heritage and what it is, but mostly about the lesser-known stories of different groups [&#...

On kaleidHERscope this week from Bogota, Colombia, Rosa Emilia Salamanca, Director of CIASE (www.ciase.org), a Colombian peacebuilding organisation with a particular focus on women’s rights, and a member of WASL speaks about inclusive peacebuilding within a peace process in a very diverse Colombia, about breaking up the increasing binary thinking and learning to embrace our own […] The post...

On kaleidHERscope Cypriot-Australian writer, performer and bestselling poet Koraly Dimitriadis, a fearless feminist voice for the southern-European diaspora, speaks to Magda Zenon from Melbourne about violence against women and opening up the space to talk about the violence of men, about the challenges of single parenting and about ensuring that the voice of the Cypriot diaspora is […] The...

On kaleidHERscope Nitsan Joy Gordon, author and director of the Together Beyond Words Organization ( Together Beyond Words | Healing For Peace ) speaks to Magda Zenon about the organization she helped found together with Arab and Jewish colleagues, to help empower and train women as peace builders so they can promote the understanding and […] The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 26: Nitsan...

Tatiana Der Avedissian, head of business development for Economist Impact’s World Ocean Initiative, the recently appointed chief adviser and climate-justice coordinator for the 2024 meeting of the W7, and a women’s rights and gender equality engagement group within the G7 in Italy, speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about the development of a sustainable ocean […] The post KaleidHERscop...

Jo Even Caspi, an Educational and Developmental Psychologist and a member of Women Wage Peace, speaks on kaleidHERscope about relocating to Israel from the USA in the ‘70’s, about Women Wage Peace, about setting up successful inter-group dialogues within Israel and about the situation in Israel and Gaza and the only way forward she sees. The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 24: Jo Even Caspi, psychol...

Lorna Vassiliades, a PhD student investigating displaced heritage in solo performance at Queen Mary University of London speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about transitioning to academia from a career in journalism, about childhood memories of Varosha and the events of ‘74, about the many identities we carry and about her upcoming events. For details […] The post KaleidHERscope – Episo...

Researcher and consultant on military and security affairs, Natasa Loizou, speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about migrating to Argentina in 2006, constructing all her identities including her Cypriot one, whilst simultaneously integrating into the local community, her journey in her traditionally ‘masculine-centred’ career and her life goal to empower young women to get involved […] T...

Xenia Economidou, a Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) practitioner, speaks on kaleidHERscope about her transition from the corporate world to becoming certified as a Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) practitioner, about ‘Being Enough’, and about the profound connection between our past experiences and current self-perceptions and how with the right tools we can transform the stories that [&#...

Editor and translator Maia Tabet speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about being a global nomad and how it helped her recognize her true identity, about her love of languages and words, about Cyprus and about the horror of the situation in Palestine now The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 20: Editor and translator Maia Tabet on how being a global nomad shaped her identity (2/4/2024) first appear...

Within the context of the ‘RESPECT – Toward a culture of Respectful Maternity Care (RMC): Enhancing Provider-Client Shared Decision Making and Informed Choice’ project, Ioli Orphanides Spokesperson on RMC & Nicos Middleton, Principal Investigator & Scientific Coordinator of the project, speak to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope podcast about the overall objective of this project, what [...

Susana Malcorra, president and cofounder of GWL Voices for Change and Inclusion, former Argentinian foreign minister, Chief of Staff for UN SG Ban ki Moon and Co-Chair of the Crisis Group speaks on kaleidHERscope about how and why GWL Voices is gathering support from countries and leaders and committed to achieving equality and working towards […] The post KaleidHERscope – Episode 18: Susana...

Israeli peace activist Yael Treidel, who has worked with both Women Waging Peace (https://www.womenwagepeace.org.il/en/) and The Road to Recovery (https://www.allmep.org/allmep_member/road-to-recovery/) speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about the political climate in Israel and the occupied territories now, about how being a peace activist is not a choice but a way of life for her and [&#823...