Sally Hayden with Molly McCloskey: THIS IS ALSO A LOVE STORY: A REPORTER’S SEARCH FOR GOODNESS IN A CRUEL WORLD

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What if news was recounted through the prism of the actions and decisions people take for those they love? Would it become harder to dehumanize those who seem different to us? In This Is Also a Love Story, celebrated foreign correspondent Sally Hayden reexamines catastrophe through the love stories she has come across. She introduces us to a mother in northeast Nigeria who risks everything to save her daughter from forced marriage to Boko Haram militants, and to a group of Syrian women who have tirelessly searched for their missing spouses and children, while launching a call for justice. We meet a couple separated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and read letters from the bereaved to the dead, still being written over a decade after the tsunami that devastated Japan. Through these stories, which crisscross the globe, from Uganda to Lebanon, Ghana, Rwanda and Iraq, she challenges us to reconsider what it means to be alive on this planet today. We hope you’ll join us for this conversation illuminating the small actions that matter.

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