PhD Candidate of Journalism, Film & Television, University of Johannesburg
Leyla Tavernaro Haidarian is a media professional and ubuntu scholar. She has produced and presented for a variety of media outlets including Warner Brothers/KTLA5, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, StarSat, MNet and the SABC. She has also appeared on HBO’s Generation Kill and played alongside Paul Walker in Vehicle 19. Leyla is a published author, co-founder of a leading educational enterprise and regularly speaks at international fora such as TEDx, The Unique Speaker Bureau and The European Baha'i Business Forum. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Johannesburg and creates TV shows for StarSat and The Africa Channel.
Responding to Trump's 'discoarse'? An African humanist philosophy may be the way
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US President Donald Trump is easily the most controversial person on Twitter. He thrives on the medium and has been exploiting it effectively. The tone of many of Trumps tweets plus Twitters nature as a medium where...
No need to talk trash: alternatives to the Jerry Springer talk show model
Jun 16, 2016 14:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
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