Miae Kim started at Oregon's KBOO as a volunteer --- nowadays she's the host and founding producer of her own program, 'Radio Beyond Borders.' She says the mission of the show is to open up the airwaves to the voices of immigrants and refugees whose stories are usually ignored by the media. And that's what this radio feature does, in the form of three Iraqi-Americans sharing their experiences and concerns about their home-country on the eve of the third anniversary of the Iraq War. There's no narration in this half-hour piece (an ambitious editorial decision), but producer Kim pulls it off with well-selected pieces of tape and a refined ear for pacing.

If you're looking for the 'pro/con' back and forth that happens in a lot of public radio explorations on political topics, you won't find it here. Kim has chosen three speakers who are all opposed to the US military presence in Iraq --- she said it was actually a challenge, in fact, finding Iraqi Immigrants who were not pro-war. Whether or not you agree with the political slant of this radio piece, you'll definitely have your eyes opened to just how irreversibly disruptive the conflict is to the lives of everyday civilians living day to day in a war zone.