Gil Penalosa is a Colombian-Canadian award-winning urbanist, the founder of 8-80 Cities, and former ambassador of World Urban Parks. Let's continue the conversation on Instagram at and Stephan Dyer Podcast is produced by Narzely Guevara and edited by Carlos Bolivar. So Zee’s dad embarks on a smuggler-led journey to save his wife and 2 babies from Saddam Hussein through some of the most dangerous mountains in the Middle East.Ĭonceptually they knew it was crazy risky. In Turkey you’re not allowed to speak Kurdish.īut you hear that if you make it to the UN Offices in Ankara, Turkey, you have a chance to go to Canada. Iran has been oppressing Kurdistan for hundreds of years. They have no passport.Īt the time Iraq is committing genocide against Kurdistan. It’s 1986 and the Kurdish people in Northern Iraq are persecuted by Saddam Hussein. His book Ajedrez y Ciencia, pasiones mezcladas (about chess and science, 2013) is already on its sixth edition.Zana Amin is a project manager by day, an entrepreneur by night, and one of the greatest storytellers I know. This is arguably the most emotional and vulnerable episode we've ever had on the podcast. He has been awarded with the Medal of Merit by the Spanish Government, and included in the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Gold Book. He produced, with Garry Kasparov, the series La Pasión del Ajedrez (The Passion for Chess 64 magazines and 25 videos 1998-1999). He has been working for different radio programmes and presented more than 100 TV programmes since 1986.
He produces a daily chess column, a weekly video, a weekly blog and many stories for El Pais (the leading newspaper and website in Spanish, with more than 18 million readers).
He has lectured on chess and its educational and social values in more than 25 countries to more than 20.000 teachers. He was a semi-professional player (1975-1983). Leontxo García (1956) is a Spanish chess lecturer, presenter, commentator and journalist since 1983.
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