Muslim

Egyptian born New Zealander Mohamed Hassan is an award-winning writer, journalist and poet. He grew up in Cairo before moving to Auckland. His new essay collection How to be a Bad Muslim explores… Video, Audio

Ramadan is the most blessed month of the Islamic calendar. It began on the 1st of April and will end this Sunday evening on the 1st May. To explain how she will be celebrating the end of Ramadan is… Audio

As someone who is involved in the tourism industry in Tel Aviv, life has been something of a roller coaster for Cantabrian Alex Jones in recent times. He's Calling Home this morning. Audio

New Zealand Al Jazeera journalist Charlotte Bellis had been visiting Kabul Airport -- the only way in and out of Afghanistan at the moment -- this week, as locals and foreign nationals alike tried to… Video, Audio

Wellingtonian Sean Barry lives in Yasamal, which is a 10 minutes' walk from the centre of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. A teacher by trade, Sean lives in an apartment with his wife Jamila and… Audio, Gallery

David Shearer has just delivered his final briefing to the UN Security Council as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General United Nations Mission in South Sudan, capping off a remarkable… Audio

A remembrance service to mark the second anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks took place yesterday. In attendance was Dr Hamimah Tuyan, whose husband Zekeriya was the 51st fatality. She… Audio

Brother Peter Bray is the Vice Chancellor of Bethlehem University, the first university established in Palestine and the only Catholic University in the Holy Land. They're preparing for the biggest… Audio

Historian, author and documentary maker Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest continuous civilisation and longest lasting state, to compile a stunning new… Audio

Irish photojournalist Cathal McNaughton gave up the 'best job in the world' for a quieter life in a cottage in the Glens of Antrim after winning a Pulitzer Prize. Audio, Gallery

At the NZ Arts Festival 2020, RNZ's Lynn Freeman talks to Rajorshi Chakraborti about his novel Shakti, a fantastical story which has insights into the real-life world of India today. Audio

Henry Jaiswal ran the Muslim Recovery Centre in the weeks following the shootings. Audio

New podcast Widows of Shuhada shares the journey of four Muslim women widowed by the Christchurch mosque attacks that took place a year ago. Farah Talal is one of those women. She joins the show with… Audio

Reza-Abdul Jabbar owns a 349-hectare dairy farm in Southland and is Imam of the world's southernmost mosque in Invercargill. Last March, when he featured on RNZ's Country Life programme, he talked… Audio

Bethlehem University is a Catholic University on the West Bank, established in 1973 as a joint venture between the De La Salle order and the Vatican. Its Vice-Chancellor, Brother Peter Bray FSC, is a… Audio

Mike Insley began learning Mandarin when he and his wife moved to China to work in a winery in the remote region of Ningxia in 2015. He's brushing up on his Mandarin skills as part of the NZ Chinese… Audio

Former enemies Imam Dr Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor Dr James Wuye spent years as the leaders of violent militias fighting each other in Nigeria, but an unlikely meeting saw their worlds come together in… Audio

Hamimah Tuyan lost her husband, Zekeriya, in the Christchurch mosque attacks. She joins Jim to discuss her views on Islam in New Zealand and Kiwis' attitudes towards the Muslim faith on the eve of her… Audio