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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Love and war: Finding hope in conflict zones

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sherine Tadros reported from war zones across the world. She joins Alex Andreou to discuss her new book Taking Sides: a memoir about love, war, and changing the world. How has she managed to stay hopeful after so much tragedy? And how can her story of personal strength inspire us to keep going against the odds?  “It is our instinct to survive that makes our story less believable.” “When you show strength in the face of great difficulty people often don’t believe you.” “I’m not saying that tragedies don’t hurt but there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast  BOOK LINK: https://scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/books/taking-sides-9781914484254 Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio editor: Alex Rees. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

0:22.0

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0:28.0

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0:30.0

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0:32.0

From those happy greetings at the door to the warm cuddles on the sofa

0:36.7

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0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker daily I am your host Aleksandro.

1:12.0

The key to activism is to stay active, reading, learning,

1:17.0

calling, writing, collecting and sharing information, using everyone you know to try to reach

1:22.1

decision makers and advocating for change even when it feels out of reach.

1:27.0

You have to imagine a world as you want it and start working to create it.

1:31.0

Those are the words of Shirin Tadrus, my guest today, who left

1:35.2

a flourishing career as Sky News Middle East correspondent to become an activist. She is now the

1:41.2

head of the New York Office for Amnesty International and its representative to the UN.

1:47.0

And she has written about it in taking sides an exceptionally smart, thoughtful,

1:52.6

often funny and touching book.

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