In this speech celebrating the 25th anniversary of FAIR, meet Noam Chomsky, prolific writer, speaker, and path-breaking media critic -- who is considered to be among the most important public...

Taken from correspondences going back to 2002, Speaking of Baghdad shows a top cast performing the stories of Iraqi writers in Baghdad. We get a chance to hear the words...

(Colombia) Here's a bit of cotton candy from someone we think we'll be hearing from again. There's such a sense of self-assured fun, both in the music and the visuals...

(Brazil) Jair Oliveira is part of a generation, descendents of the great MPB artists, who are forging new sounds and original takes on the bedrock of Brazilian song. The son...

The luminous Sara Tavares is back with a statement about the sanctuary she finds within herself.  "A speck of inner light ablaze in the soul leads me on to...

-Buy the DVD (Brazil) Jair Oliveira is part of a generation, descendents of the great MPB artists, who are forging new sounds and original takes on the...

-Buy the album (Brazil) Chico César is one of Brasil's foremost songwriters, and he is also an outspoken champion of the poor, both urban and rural. He...

(South Africa) Vusi Mahlasela's passionate singing was featured in the film "Amandla," which focused on the remarkable music that came out of the resistance movement in South Africa during the...

-Download on iTunes (Mexico/USA) When Cortez came to conquor, it was Malinche, originally given to him with twenty other female slaves who became his most...

(Canada) The urdu ghazal (love song) was just being born in India in the 16th century, when the language was a mixture of Persian and Hindi. The lyrics of this...