Middle East: July 2010 Archives
Wednesday July 21, 2010
July 22 & 25: from Beirut - France - Siberia - Mumbai
Yaks and thugs and 160 flat tires; the cyclist who pedalled halfway around the world to take on his own fears.
From the can't-win-for-losing department;: musicians in Lebanon win acclaim for singing in Arabic. Then lose it, for singing in Arabic.
Why France takes the cake. Insights into a country that views pastry as culture, and how chefs become kings.
And from Mumbai, why Mary Colaso can't go home. The elderly of India are being moved out, not in.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Asia, Coming Up, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Thursday July 8, 2010
July 8 & 11: from Washington - Sierras de Rocha, Uruguay - Yankassa, Sierra Leone - Montreal - Kabul
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| Photo courtesy ">PLAN Ceibal |
The country where every schoolkid gets a laptop. You knew it would happen someday. You may be surprised as to where.
Then, do Sunni Muslims have a future in Iraq? A new book says they've been eclipsed and the country will be worse off without them.
A look at the land-grab business. Agribusiness is in the global market for arable land, but is the developing world selling off its future food security?
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Americas, Middle East, Past Episodes
Thursday July 1, 2010
July 1 & 8: from Gobi Desert, Mongolia - Tajikistan - London - Nicaragua - Damascus
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| Mongolian schoolchildren: the front line in the fight against fossil poachers in the Gobi desert (Photo/Danielle Nerman) |
The many ways Canadians bring you the world.
An all-Canadian effort, starting with a Calgary reporter in search of fossil thieves thwarting Canadian scientists in the Gobi Desert.
Then, a Canadian back from working in Tajikistan, which he describes as the Sopranos run by Fred Flintstone but too important to ignore.
We have a Canadian documentary-maker who bought himself a little piece of heaven in Nicaragua and found himself in a world of land craziness.
And, a Syrian-Canadian who took in Ladies Hour at the ancient Bath of Roses in Damascus, where they still dip like the Romans did.
Finally, a CBC journalist recalls going for gold in the Defend-Canada-From-The-British-Media Olympics. No place for false starts.
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