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Nasser Mizdawi is a Libyan superstar. He brought pop to the Libyan music scene at a time when the country had just emerged from a revolution. The...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 24, 2010
- Length: 05:24
- Purchases: 1
You might just call it “survival salad.” When Kunrath Lam was a little girl, she survived the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. During those...
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 04:04
Hindus are gathering in homes and temples this week in India to celebrate the birthday of one of their most popular deities -- a pot-bellied figure...
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 04:17
Story: Every day, hundreds of Central American migrants ride on top of Mexican freight trains bound for the US border. Kids and teenagers often att...
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 12:34
In Pakistan, floods have displaced millions of people . Farmers have also lost millions of acres of crops and livestock. Pakistani reporter Imtia...
- Added: Sep 10, 2010
- Length: 02:32
Very few women in Ethiopia finish high school. Even fewer start successful businesses.
But Bethlehem Tilahun has done both. As a result, she’s b...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 10, 2010
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
In Ethiopia and other parts of East Africa, people get their milk and their meat from goats.
Jamal Hashi has first-hand experience. As a boy he sp...
- Added: Sep 10, 2010
- Length: 03:08
Dr Jill Seaman is driven by a desire to help people. She’s spent much of her life in a remote part of Sudan, helping villagers who suffer from inf...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 10, 2010
- Length: 05:44
- Purchases: 1
There are about 7,000 languages in the world – and half of them are expected to disappear by the end of this century. One language on the verge of ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
If you can’t read or write, how can you sign important documents or cash your paycheck? In Afghanistan, you get a signet ring. Engravers carve r...
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 02:57
Colombia has been making progress in its battle against drug trafficking.
Just last week govt officials arrested a major drug dealer accused of se...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
Laotian cuisine is not as popular IN THE U.S. as that of its neighbours, Vietnam and Thailand, but its every bit as sophisticated. It’s full of exo...
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 03:04
In Panama, a descendant of African slaves is fighting to keep her culture alive. Marlon Bishop brings us this story of the Congo Princess.
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 05:48
- Purchases: 1
The Merasi are a group of Untouchables, the lowest caste in India. They've been singing and playing music for higher caste patrons for the past 2,...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUT, KUOW, and WBEZ
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 06:01
- Purchases: 5
Back when the Nepali village of Kaskikot didn’t have any technology except the radio, a young farm boy started wondering about how machines work. ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 03:05
In Sudan, 20-years of civil war between the Arab Muslim north and the Christian African south has left two million dead. Both sides used child sol...
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 05:35
Day laborers in the Philippines are turning to a TV show as a way to solve their money problems.
The popular game show is called “Wowowee.” It fea...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 1
When we travel to a foreign country, we often bring our assumptions with us. That’s what reporter Jina Moore did during a trip to the capitol of t...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 02:36
Experts say the capitol of Yemen quickly running out of water. It might sound crazy, but the water crisis in Sana’a is due in large part to its un...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 06:01
We all know how easy it is to take for granted those things we’ve grown up around. But imagine growing up in the midst of historical monuments 700...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 05:09
Camels are critical in parts of Africa and the Middle East. If you want to buy one, they’re not cheap and haggling over the price is a long establ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 02:24
Yemen sits at the southernmost tip of the Arabian Peninsula and is the poorest country in the Middle East. Just 30% of its women can read compared...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Jul 23, 2010
- Length: 04:31
- Purchases: 1
There’s promising news out of the International Aids Conference that just wrapped up in Vienna.
The report that created the most excitement was abo...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2010
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 1
High-level officials from more than 40 countries met in Kabul a few days ago to discuss Afghanistan’s future. For many Afghans though, it’s the pa...
- Added: Jul 23, 2010
- Length: 02:51
The World Cup winds down after the final on July 12th and South Africans go back to their normal lives after a month of excitement, partying, and i...
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 02:44
