Art is powerful. It helps people process complicated emotions, it can bring people together, it can make the audience question their existing beliefs. Today we turn to the playwrights and poets to better understand the Israel Hamas war. We were joined by playwrights Arthur Milner and Rania Al-Harthi. We also heard from poets Ali Kharsa and Peace Akintade.
Amber Sheasgreen, a veteran search and rescue worker from Prince Rupert, B.C., recently led a crew made up mostly of volunteers as they worked to save refugees attempting to make a journey to safety by boat in the central Mediterranean Sea.