Stephen Snyder

Stephen Snyder has written 63 posts for PRI's The World

Music Heard on The Air, Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Tunes Spun On The World between our reports on Christmas Day, December 25, 2012. Artists featured are Kitka, Marta Sebestyen, Lisa Lynne, Nightnoise, Jon Kennedy, Tone Loc, Bananarama, and The Enchanters.

Music Heard on The Air, Monday, December 24, 2012

Tunes Spun On The World between our reports on Monday, December 24, 2012. Artists featured are Mdungu, Baraban, Toubab Krewe, Willie Colon & Hector Lavoe & Yomo Toro, African Guitar Summit, and Silina Musango.

Music Heard on The Air, Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Tunes Spun On The World between our reports on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. Artists featured are Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck, Soul Brothers, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba featuring Harouna Samake, Oran Etkin, and Toubab Krewe.

Della Mae Bluegrass in Pakistan

The Bluegrass group Della Mae brings American down-home music to Pakistan and Central Asia.

Yemen, Al Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia

Author and Yemen scholar Gregory D. Johnsen has written a comprehensive history of al Qaeda in Yemen, and shares his thoughts with The World’s Marco Werman. He observes that al Qaeda’s roots in Yemen go back to the 1990s.

Music Heard on The Air, Thursday, October 25, 2012

Tunes Spun On The World between our reports on Thursday, October 25, 2012. Artists featured are Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck, Soul Brothers, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba featuring Harouna Samake, Just A Band, Silina Musango and Toubab Krewe.

12,000 Miners Fired in South Africa

The world’s biggest platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum, fired 12,000 striking workers in South Africa Friday. It’s the latest action in a labor dispute that has been going on for months, spurred on by a deadly police action at the Marikana mine in August, that killed 34 strikers.

Music Heard on The Air, Thursday, August 16, 2012

Tunes Spun On The World between our reports on Thursday, August 16, 2012. Artists featured are Charanga Cakewalk, Malombo, Oran Etkin, Ticklah, Issa Bagayogo, King Sunny Ade, Sous le Soleil, and AfroCubism.

Music Heard on The Air, Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Tunes Spun On The World between our reports on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Artists featured are Tinariwen, Ragheb Alama, Sous le Soleil, and AfroCubism.

Yemen: Taking Charge of the Generals

The president of Yemen has begun restructuring the Yemeni army. Princeton scholar Gregory Johnsen tells Marco Werman that this power play has to be handled with care.

Music Heard on The Air, Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Tunes Spun On The World between our reports on Tuesday, August 7, 2012. Artists featured are Royksopp, Kaya Project, Generation Bass, Silina Musango, Yin Tsang, Kila, RJD2, Daniela Nard, and AfroCubism.

Syria Anti-Violence Resolution Adopted by UN General Assembly

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning the violence by the Syrian government and the Security Council’s failure to stop it. Washington Post UN Correspondent Colum Lynch says the UN resolution, which is not enforceable, will have little impact.

India Power Outages: Living Through the Blackout

A BBC journalist in New Delhi tells what it was like living through India’s blackouts.

Music Heard on The Air, Friday, July 20, 2012

Tunes Spun On The World between our reports on Friday, July 20, 2012. Artists featured are Sixto Rodriguez, Kila, Kerekes Band, Silina Musango, Markku Lepisto, Dean Torkington, and AfroCubism.

Egypt’s New President Vows to Free Omar Abdel-Rahman

Egypt’s president-elect Mohamed Mursi vows to free Omar Abdel-Rahman, the spiritual leader convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.