5 Objects Podcast | Conversation With Hassan Ghedi Santur

5 Objects Podcast | Conversation with Hassan Ghedi Santur

By Suchitra Vijayan November 19, 2017

For each episode, our guest will be asked to choose five pieces or items that have influenced their intellectual life and their work. These five items can be books, art, music, poetry, photographs, performance, a person, an event, or an experience. The choices then become the basis of a free-flowing conversation that discusses our guest’s life, their personal, political and intellectual journeys and histories. At the end of the programme, our current guest will nominate the person to be interviewed next in the series making this podcast an exercise in serendipity and an intellectual history of a new generation of writers/ scholars/ artists and activists. Our first guest is writer Hassan Ghedi Santur.

Hassan Ghedi Santur

Hassan Ghedi Santur, contributing editor at WARSCAPES. He is a Somali-Canadian journalist based in Nairobi and the author of the novel Something Remains and Maps of Exile. He holds a Master’s degree in politics and global affairs from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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He chose 1. Radio, 2. Becoming a Refugee (leaving Somalia and settling in Canada with my family), 3. Literature – (The Novel in particular), 4. Journalism and 5. Travel.

The conversation was recorded on November 16th, 2017, with Suchitra Vijayan in New York and Hassan Santur in Nairobi.

He elected Roopa Gogineni, a photojournalist and filmmaker, and radio journalist currently based in Paris as our next guest. You can listen to her segment here.

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Suchitra Vijayan

Suchitra Vijayan is the author of the critically acclaimed book Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India (Melville House, New York) and How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners (Pluto Press). She is 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction. She is an award-winning photographer and the founder and executive director of the Polis Project, a New York-based magazine of dissent. She teaches at NYU Gallatin and Columbia University, and is the Chairperson of the International Human Rights Committee. Her essays, photographs, and interviews have appeared in The Washington Post, GQ, The Nation, The Boston Review, Foreign Policy, Lit Hub, Rumpus, Electric Literature, NPR, NBC, Time, and BBC. As an attorney, she worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo for Iraqi refugees.

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