Ariadne’s Notes: The World Poetry Café Radio Show with hosts, Ariadne Sawyer and Neall Ryon with Super Engineer Victor Schwartzman and special volunteer, Sharon Rowe, welcomed  Alnoor Gova & Anushka Azadi  to the studio, CFRO, 100.5 FM. Also featured was poet Kevin Morris from England who was not able to call in due to a phone problem. He will be trying again on Jan. 26th at 1:40 pm PST.

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Alnoor Gova’s research focuses on the present Canadian political scene, largely in the areas of Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Immigration, National Security and Law; with a particular focus on anti-Muslim racism aka Islamophobia. PhD Research: “Responses to and interpretation of anti-Muslim racism in Canada : a community perspective” (2015), Available at: https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0167825 Community Research: The Impact of Racial Profiling (2008) co-authored with Rahat Kurd, Available at: http://mbc.metropolis.net/assets/uploads/files/wp/2008/WP08-14.pdf 

An Essay titled: “Reading Khadr: Making Sense of Canada’s Reluctance to Do the Right Thing” co-authored with Robert Diab in Ed. Williamson’ Omar Khadr, Oh Canada’ (2012). Alnoor is a producer/co-host with a collective that broadcasts three weekly legacy public affairs shows “Bulland Awaaz”, “the Rational” and “Wednesday Democracy North” on CFRO Vancouver CoopRadio, member owned and operated broadcasting since 1975. Alnoor is passionate and opinionated speaker and has presented at conferences and panel discussions as well as organized and facilitated public forums on a variety of social justice issues for well over a decade. A Co-founder of the Siraat Collective and has worked with a variety of organizations including the Asian Heritage Month Festivals in Metro Toronto and Vancouver. A long Standing board member Neworld Theatre, and Nahid Siqququi Dance Company and recently Vancouver CoopRadio

Anushka Azadi and Alnoor Gova also produce and co-host weekly public affairs shows on CFRO Vancouver, and recently produced a a series of discussions with leading Canadian experts sharing their analysis on C-51/AntiTerrorism Act 2015 titled “Unpacking Anti-Terrorism”, these discussions started in 2014 are continuing and will be uploaded regularly – they are help Canadians better inform themselves about the Anti Terror Laws and can be found here: https://antiterror.ca/audio/

Anushka is a queer Indian-Muslim writer, performer and anarchist revolutionary with burning buildings in her dreams and the weapons of love and chaos in her hands. You can find her on the road and in the streets, traveling between the front lines and the city. Look for her first all-poetry chapbook to be published this year amidst the ruins of the old empires.