Middle East

Wednesday June 20, 2012

June 21 & 24: the last Dispatches

From our correspondents around the world...

 

The crew at Dispatches preparing the final show: (from left: Alan Guettel, Rick MacInnes-Rae, Nima Shams, Steve McNally, Alison Masemann, and Dawna Dingwall).

This week -  we say good-bye.

It's our last program but we're going out with boats, baboons, and a bang.

We'll touch on some of the stories we've brought you over the years, some of the places we've been, and some of the strange and sublime people we put into your radio.

Along the way, we'll hear some of the moments that stopped us in our tracks. And hear some untold stories from our our correspondents.

We saved the best for last. 

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Categories: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes

Wednesday June 6, 2012

June 7 & June 10: from Italy - Amsterdam - Cairo - Bosnia - San Agustin, Cuba

From our correspondents around the world...

 

The enduring image from 1992 of the Bosnian war, taken when Ed Vulliamy and Independent Television News uncovered the existence of concentration camps in Trnopolje, above, Omarska and Keraterm. Vulliamy argues the startling revelations failed to bring the horrors, or the war, to a close. (Photo: Reuters)

Why Italy illegally walled off the sea to would-be refugees and sent them to certain abuse in Libya.

Dining out on a country specializing in famine. There's more than kimchi at a North Korean-themed restaurant.

Speaking of menus, there's a celebrity cook on Egyptian TV pitching comfort food for an uncomfortable economy.

Then, a Bosnian memoir from a correspondent seething about the perils of the Balkan region's unresolved history.

And from Cuba, how to get along with your neighbours when you're a temperamental artist and your neighbours are the Castros.

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Categories: Africa, Americas, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes

Wednesday May 23, 2012

May 24 and May 27, 2012: from Florence - Uganda - The Seychelles - Iraq

From our correspondents around the world...

 

Tour participants in Florence eat gelato topped with aged balsamic vinegar, a uniquely Italian treat. (Photo: Luigi Fraboni)

How does a hairdresser recruited for work in Dubai, wind up slaving for the U.S. military in a war zone in Iraq? We look at the plight of those known as "The Invisible Army."

In Uganda you can inherit a wife, marry more than one, and beating them isn't much of a crime. And changing that is proving problematic.

Then, a young award-winning reporter on shoe leather, social media and his first time in a free-fire zone.

And, Florentine steak, well-aged parmeggiano, and an egg-rich gelato to die for. How to find the best food in Florence.

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Categories: Africa, Americas, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes

Thursday May 10, 2012

May 10 & 13, 2012: from Damascus, Syria - Munich, Germany - Sao Paolo, Brazil - Alabama - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Port-au-Prince, Haiti

From our correspondents around the world...

 

Alabama has America's toughest laws aimed at undocumented immigrants. It makes the lives of Hispanics so hard they are "self deporting", even if they are not illegal. The approach has also had an impact on Alabama citizens, many of whom have been drawn into the state's war on undocumented immigrants. (AP Photo/John Amis)

The shifting conflict in Syria. From stand-and-fight to guerilla warfare and a cry for outside help.

The German locomotive hopes to pull Europe's flailing economies out of trouble. But there's a ghost in that machine.

In Brazil, David Rocha makes garbage instruments. Or rather, instruments from garbage. That's why they sound so good.

Illegal immigrant, deport thyself. How an experiment in immigration went wrong in Alabama.

Hotels aren't in the charity business, so why would the Red Cross want into the hotel business, in Haiti?

And from the Netherlands, a cafe where you don't pay for the food. We take repast in a restaurant for these recessionary times.

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Categories: 2010 Season, Americas, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes

Thursday April 26, 2012

Yemen: A lesson in insecurity

The Romans called it "Arabia Felix".  Happy Arabia.

But Yemen, as it's known today, is anything but. Buffeted by rebellion and its own Arab Spring, political instability is on vivid display now that miltants have seized an entire province and sent its residents packing.

Today many live with the legacy of unrest that's driven them from their homes to refuge in distant schools where Canadian journalist Lindsay Mackenzie says the only lessons they learn, are the hard ones.

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Categories: Middle East, News Promo, Promo Box

Wednesday April 18, 2012

April 19 & April 22, 2012 - from Mexico - Cuba - Yemen - Peru - Cairo, Egypt

From our correspondents around the world...

 

Selioua Muhammad, 25, sits inside her rooftop shelter in Sheik Othman, Yemen. Muhammad fled her home in June 2011 and has lived at this school since then. (Photo: Lindsay Mackenzie)

The drug cartels have stolen Mexico's dignity. Journalist Luis Najera wants his back.

The new entrepreneurial Cuba. Forget what you thought it was. The Fixer's gonna show you what it is.

Then, the school everyone goes to but no one attends. Children of the Bombardment learn hard lessons in Yemen.

Plus, the View from Peru, of an extraordinary Easter re-enactment.

And, in times of war, this much is true. Everybody lies. That said, we consider the source of reporting from Syria.

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Categories: Americas, Middle East, Past Episodes

• June 2012
  • Wed., 20 – June 21 & 24: the last Dispatches
     
  • Wed., 6 – June 7 & June 10: from Italy - Amsterdam - Cairo - Bosnia - San Agustin, Cuba
     
• May 2012
  • Wed., 23 – May 24 and May 27, 2012: from Florence - Uganda - The Seychelles - Iraq
     
  • Thu., 10 – May 10 & 13, 2012: from Damascus, Syria - Munich, Germany - Sao Paolo, Brazil - Alabama - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Port-au-Prince, Haiti
     
• April 2012
  • Thu., 26 – Yemen: A lesson in insecurity
     
  • Wed., 18 – April 19 & April 22, 2012 - from Mexico - Cuba - Yemen - Peru - Cairo, Egypt
     
  • Wed., 11 – April 12 & April 15, 2012 - from Libya - Ganta, Liberia - Montreal - Paris
     
  • Wed., 4 – April 5 and April 8, 2012 - from Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Kiev, Ukraine - Prato, Italy - Ganta, Liberia - Tel Aviv, Israel
     
• February 2012
  • Wed., 29 – March 1 & 4, 2012 - from Moscow - Jacmel, Haiti - Sanaa, Yemen - Dharamsala, India - Pakistan
     
  • Wed., 8 – February 9 & 12: from Cairo - Kazakhstan - Turkey - India - New York
     
• January 2012
  • Thu., 12 – Jan 12 & 14, 2012: from East Jerusalem - Dublin - India - Democratic Republic of Congo - Beijing
     
• December 2011
  • Thu., 29 – Dec 29 & Jan 1: from Artibonite, Haiti - Brazil - New York - Uganda - Saudi Arabia
     
  • Wed., 7 – December 8 & 11, 2011: from Santiago - Benghazi, Libya - Zimbabwe - Somalia - Boston - Independencia, Peru
     
  • Thu., 1 – Dec 1 & 4, 2011: from, Afghanistan - Egypt - The Philippines - Amsterdam - Colombia
     
• November 2011
  • Thu., 17 – November 17 & 20: from South Africa - Afghanistan - Espiritu Santu, Brazil - Mogadishu, Somalia
     
• October 2011
  • Thu., 6 – October 6, 2011: from Peshawar, Pakistan - Guatemala City - Misrata, Libya - Mendoza, Argentina
     
• September 2011
  • Thu., 29 – September 29, 2011: from, Mumbai, India - Chisinau, Moldova - Loruth, Kenya - Peshawar, Pakistan - Bangladesh
     
  • Wed., 21 – September 22, 2011: from Beni, Congo - Chicago - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Tripoli - Kenya
     
  • Thu., 15 – September 15, 2011: from Misrata and Janzur, Libya - Washington, D.C. - Beijing - New York - Kenya/South Sudan border
     
• June 2011
  • Mon., 13 – Jerusalem...covering the never-ending story
     
  • Thu., 9 – June 9 & 12: from Cairo - Venezuela - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Jerusalem - India
     
  • Thu., 2 – June 2 & 5: from Lima, Peru - Den Bosch, The Netherlands - Syria - Rondonia, Brazil - Lombardy, Italy
     
• May 2011
  • Wed., 18 – May 19 & 22: from Kampala, Uganda - Israel - Montebaducco, Italy - Sarajevo, Bosnia - Nanjing, China - Robben Island, South Africa
     
  • Wed., 4 – May 5 & 8 from: Glasgow - Florence - Uljanovsk, Russia - Butare, Rwanda - Delhi
     
• April 2011
  • Wed., 27 – April 28 & May 1: from Coban, Guatemala - Zimbabwe - Benghazi, Libya - Kolkata, India - Belize.
     
  • Thu., 14 – April 14 & 17: from Tokyo - Montreal - London - Kampala, Uganda - Berlin - North Korea
     
  • Wed., 6 – April 7 & 10: from Cairo - Dakar, Senegal - Libya - Liberia - Tijuana, Mexico
     
  • Mon., 4 – Jordan's protests run deep
     
• March 2011
  • Wed., 30 – March 31 & April 3: from Grand Forks, North Dakota - Ukraine - Amman, Jordan - Bunya, Democratic Republic of Congo - Manila, Philippines
     
  • Wed., 23 – March 24 - 27, 2011 from: Noda and Sendai, Japan - Chernobyl - Tunis - Benghazi, Libya - Berlin
     
  • Tue., 22 – The screwy Saudi security syndrome
     
  • Thu., 17 – March 17/20, 2011 Dispatches: from Kabul - Riyadh - Beijing - Douglas, South Africa -Cozumel - India via New York
     
  • Mon., 14 – Addis Ababa...renting the news of revolution
     
  • Thu., 10 – March 10/13, 2011 Dispatches: from Beijing - Mendoza, Argentina - Tripoli - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Punta Allen, Mexico
     
  • Wed., 9 – Oil rules: Saudi democracy runs on vapors
     
  • Wed., 2 – March 3 & 6: from Tunis - London - Orestiada, Greece - Riyadh - Cameroon - Detroit
     
• February 2011
  • Wed., 16 – February 17 & 20: from Lampedusa, Italy - Kingi, Democratic Republic of Congo - Uganda - Iran via Washington - Urumqi, China
     
  • Wed., 2 – February 3 & 6: from Cairo - Southern Sudan - Mexico - London - Kenya
     
• January 2011
  • Thu., 27 – January 27 & 30: from Yunnan Province, China - Pennsylvania - Jerusalem - Glasgow - Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
     
  • Thu., 20 – January 20 & 23: from Haiti - Dubai - Beijing - New Delhi - Rajasthan, India
     
  • Fri., 7 – Hezbollah and temporary marriage
     
  • Thu., 6 – January 6 & 9: from Juba, Sudan - Brunei - Diego Garcia - Serra da Guia, Brazil - Rohtak, India
     
• December 2010
  • Wed., 1 – December 2 & 5: from Jerusalem - China - Bogota, Colombia - Kabul
     
• November 2010
  • Thu., 18 – November 18 & 21: from Kampala, Uganda - the Thai-Burmese border - Hilversum, Netherlands - Beirut, Lebanon - Dakar, Senegal - Chennai, India - Nanoori, Ghana
     
  • Thu., 11 – November 11 & 14, 2010: from Cambodia, New Delhi, Mali, Israel
     
• October 2010
  • Thu., 28 – October 28 & 31, 2010: from Rio de Janeiro - Dublin - Voss, Norway - Huntsville, Alabama - London
     
  • Mon., 25 – Maalula, Syria... meeting Chavez on the road here
     
  • Thu., 14 – October 14 & 17, 2010: from Miami - Cuba - Arizona - Tripoli, Lebanon - Berlin - La Paz, Bolivia
     
  • Thu., 7 – October 7 & 10, 2010 - from Port-au-Prince - Rio de Janeiro - Pakistan - New York - Kabul
     
• September 2010
  • Thu., 30 – September 30 & October 3, 2010: from Paris - New York - Afghanistan - Chiapas - Culver City, CA
     
  • Thu., 23 – September 23 & 26, 2010: from Pakistan - Moscow - Johannesburg - India - Damascus
     
  • Thu., 9 – September 9 & 12 - from Gudvangen, Norway - Oakland, CA - Chelsetoon, Afghanistan - Mexico City - Oklahoma
     
• August 2010
  • Thu., 26 – August 26 & 29, 2010 from: Cairo - Lusaka, Zambia - Burundi - New York
     
  • Thu., 5 – August 5 & 8: from Dogon country, Mali - Israel - San Salvador - Postville, Iowa
     
• July 2010
  • Wed., 21 – July 22 & 25: from Beirut - France - Siberia - Mumbai
     
  • Thu., 8 – July 8 & 11: from Washington - Sierras de Rocha, Uruguay - Yankassa, Sierra Leone - Montreal - Kabul
     
  • Thu., 1 – July 1 & 8: from Gobi Desert, Mongolia - Tajikistan - London - Nicaragua - Damascus
     
• June 2010
  • Thu., 17 – June 17 & 20: from Los Angeles - Kabul - Sochi, Russia - Port-au-Prince - Jerusalem
     
  • Thu., 10 – June 10 & 13: from Johannesburg - Zwedru - Assam - Mumbai - New Orleans
     
• May 2010
  • Thu., 27 – May 27 & 30: from Harare - Kabul - New York - Nanjing
     
  • Thu., 13 – May 13 & 16: from Skeleton Canyon - London - Chicomuselo - Nanjie
     
• March 2010
  • Thu., 18 – March 18 & 21: from Bhutan - Iraq - Ethiopia - Toronto
     
  • Thu., 11 – March 11 & 14: from Nairobi - Gikongoro, Rwanda - Kabul - London
     
• February 2010
  • Thu., 25 – February 25 & 28: from Los Angeles - Harare - Dushanbe - London - Kandahar
     
  • Thu., 18 – February 18 & 21: from Zurich - Kabul - Cambodia - London
     
• January 2010
  • Thu., 14 – January 14 & 17: from Sana'a, Yemen - Beirut - Freetown, Sierra Leone - Montreal
     
• December 2009
  • Thu., 31 – December 31 & January 2: from Jakarta - Washington D.C. - Diego Garcia - London
     
  • Thu., 3 – December 3 & 6: from Cairo - Gobi Desert, Mongolia - Quetta, Pakistan - Baghdad
     
• November 2009
  • Thu., 19 – November 19 & 22: from Washington - Peje, Kosovo - Mumbai - New York
     
• October 2009
  • Thu., 15 – October 15 & 18: from San Juan Batista, California - Kabul - New York - London - Cape Town - Port-au-Prince
     
  • Thu., 1 – October 1 & 4: from Kandahar - Mostar, Bosnia - Damascus
     
• September 2009
  • Thu., 24 – September 24 & 27: from Salaya, India - Kabul - New York - Bandiagara, Mali
     
  • Thu., 17 – September 17 & 20: from Kabul - Beijing - Ottawa - New York - Paris - Beirut - Kelabit, Borneo
     
  • Thu., 10 – September 10 & 13: from San Jose, Costa Rica - Brunei - Sierras de Rocha, Uruguay - New York - Olwein, Iowa - Tegucigalpa, Honduras - New Delhi