This piece resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war. Read the full description.
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Piece Description
Unfamiliar voices and languages invite us to imagine the impact of war on one woman's life. The piece was inspired by the constraints established by Third Coast's Radio Ephemera short doc series in 2008, which enticed producers to sort through literary ephemera and braid words with a stranger's voice and evocative sounds. I have not met Salima, a survivor of a cluster-bomb lobbed into her village in Lebanon during the Israeli August 2006 war; but her voice (and that of various translators) was shared with me by radio colleague Jessica Dheere who interviewed her and numerous other cluster-bomb victims in Beirut that fall.
Broadcast History
Radio Ephemera, Third Coast International Audio Festival
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