August 5, 2024
WAR AND PEACE!!! Tune in to Viewpoint With Seeta and Friends AM 1510 WWBC on AM 1510 WWBC, FM 94.7, 99.9, and 100.7, and online at https://1510wwbc.com/ We will be speaking with Mitra Rahbar , author, philanthropist, and peace activist.Our second segment features award-winning military author Frank Demith, who will join us to discuss his book ‘Of Vital Interest.’ Frank Demith – Author
About Mitra Voice of Mitra
Master Intuitive, Award-Winning Author, Acclaimed Speaker, Teacher, and Artist, Mitra has spent the last three decades of her life bringing forth awareness, guidance, and education to thousands across the globe. Born in Iran from a lineage of poets, and her grandfather’s Sufi discipline, Mitra has built her life on the pillars of spiritual enlightenment, creative artistry, and service. Mitra is the author of the Independent Publishers award-winning book, Miraculous Silence, published by Penguin/Random House. Her book has been endorsed and narrated by Michael Beckwith, Jennifer Aniston, Sheryl Crow, Gisele Bundchen, Billy Dee Williams, Diane Lane, Courtney Cox, Jackson Galaxy, and Kristin Hahn.
Mitra is an advocate for many causes, sharing her wisdom and insight with audiences of the United Nations, CBS Radio, Larry King, The Awake Show with Michael Beckwith, Maria Menounos, a keynote speaker at the Women’s Leadership Conference at UCLA, a contributor on Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, and much more, touching hearts worldwide with her spiritual teachings, music, and meditations. Mitra has sung on award-winning films such as Spartacus, The Olive Harvest, sang and performed “Peace by Upon Us”, with Sheryl Crow on CBS for the Home for the Holidays show, and solo and compilation albums, and her album, Persian Treasures, a collection of Persian Folk Songs, and her sacred chants are powerful signatures in her portfolio as an artist.
In 2017 Mitra created a program called Servants of Love, to bring forth teachings on a life of service, and spiritual enlightenment to others. In 2020 Mitra founded “Auntie Mitra and the Kids”, and the “Awareness Program” for the youth in orphanages and poverty-stricken areas in Iran, where she is also working to implement her new Wellness Program (Salamaat) in the school systems.
Since 2019 Mitra has been expanding her philanthropic work in Iran and Afghanistan. Mitra has brought awareness through her fundraisers for impoverished areas in Iran and is currently working with various Afghans and their families to help them transition into refugee status.
Mitra uses music, and the spoken word to create powerful imagery and continues each day to weave pathways that bring forth joy, healing, and awareness through her work globally.
About Frank Demith
Frank Demith is a retired Army veteran who served on active duty for twenty-eight years. He graduated from the United States Military Academy and later worked on the Department of the Army team that developed the Army interpreter/translator program. He is a graduate of the Deliberate Discomfort Challenge and is a member of the Endless 6. In his free time, he enjoys reading history and fiction novels, visiting battlefields, and playing the saxophone. He currently lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia with his wife and their four dogs.
Of Vital Interest
This stalwart soldier is heading out on his fourth deployment to Iraq, where he grew up in a small village before moving to the States with his parents under a military visa program. He is eager to deploy to Iraq yet again and assist the military’s mission in any way he can.
Meanwhile, Specialist Al Khafaji joins the US Military as part of another special recruiting program through which he ultimately becomes a US citizen and soldier. However, Al Khafaji’s motives are unclear to his superiors, who cannot discern what is different about him.
While Al Khafaji moves through linguist training, he receives cryptic phone calls and emails as he prepares to deploy to Iraq, where his family still resides. What could these unsettling messages mean? Who is sending them?
In Of Vital Interest, Abdullah’s and Al Khafaji’s lives interweave as the two men join teams in Iraq, where the US Military works to dismantle a terrorist militant cell operating in a nearby village. This riveting and fast-paced novel will have you hooked from the very first page as each soldier makes his mission, whether good or bad, his life’s number one priority.