Obaida Hitto, a Texan who spent five months assisting the Free Syrian Army, visited us for an interview recording with NPR's All Things Considered.
Mr. Hitto documented the violence in the eastern Syrian city through videos he posted on the Internet, until he was injured in a mortar attack by Bashar Assad's forces at the end of September. He is now recovering in Istanbul.
Ghaith Abdel-Ahad visited us in our studio for an interview recording with the Fresh Air Show. Mr. Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion and has written for The Guardian and Washington Post.
In 2007 he received the James Cameron Memorial Trust Award and was British International Journalist of the Year in 2008.
Simon Carrington is a singer, double bass player and conductor. He was a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble King's Singers and founded the Yale Schola Cantorum in 2003.
Last month during his visit in Istanbul he conducted a Yale Schola Cantorum performance in Hagia Irene. We had the chance to ask him a few questions.
Rasmus Stolberg is one of the four core members of Efterklang and plays the bass. He just recently came to Istanbul, while on tour with the band.
We did not get the chance to meet up in person, but luckily Mr. Stolberg did a short email interview with us.
Ludger Vollmer, who was born on June 29th 1961 in Berlin, is a german componist, musician and teacher. His opera "Gegen die Wand" (Against the Wall), based on Fatih Akin's same named movie was invited to Istanbul's 1st Opera Festival this year.
We did not have the chance to meet Mr. Vollmer in person, but he was happy to do a small interview via Email with us.
