The Brooklyn College Listening Project is a community interview and oral history project run by faculty and students across several departments in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Performing and Visual Arts at Brooklyn College. Our aim is to listen to and, when possible, record a wide range of stories about life experiences in Brooklyn, NY. We plan to archive recordings of the interviews at the Brooklyn College Library and make them available online through the Library’s website. For more information, please contact us at: bclistening@gmail.com
Jahnara Begum speaks of life in her native Bangladesh and in Brooklyn.
Interviewee: Jahanara Begum
Interviewer: Asif Mahmud
Instructor: Paul Moses
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Interview with Allan Farkas on growing up in Brooklyn, starting with childhood in East New York.
Interviewee: Allan Farkas
Interviewer: Elisabeth Farkas
Instructor: Paul Moses
Jane Graham, daughter of Irish immigrants, talks about growing up in Flatbush and a father who took part in the IRA.
Interviewee: Jane Graham
Interviewer: Ye-Eun Park
Instructor: Paul Moses
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Iqra Nadeem discusses what it was like to migrate as a child from Lahore, Pakistan to Brooklyn.
Interviewee: Iqra Nadeem
Interviewer: Wajiha Kazmi
Instructor: Paul Moses
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