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Poland's booming economy tempts migrants home - 27 Sep 08

2008-10-02T04:48:32Z

While the US and UK economies have been lurching from one crisis to the next, things are looking much better in Eastern Europe.

In Poland in particular, the economy has grown so much in recent years, that many Poles who've left the country to work elsewhere in Europe are returning home.

From Warsaw, Jayne Azzopardi reports.

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Taste of Polonia 2008

2008-09-22T16:52:56Z

Illinois Congresswoman Melissa Bean speaks about Barack Obama and the midwestern work ethic, at the 2008 Taste of Polonia, in Chicago, IL.

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E A S T E R N

2008-08-20T18:32:08Z

My lo-fi tune

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Re: A-R-A-B: The Rap

2008-07-24T16:20:10Z

Video Cam Direct Upload

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One on One - Nadim Sawalha - 12 Jul 08 - Part 2

2008-07-16T06:45:42Z

This week One on One meets the veteran actor who was one of the few Arabs in the British film industry during the 1960s.

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One on One - Nadim Sawalha - 12 Jul 08 - Part 1

2008-07-16T06:45:42Z

This week One on One meets the veteran actor who was one of the few Arabs in the British film industry during the 1960s.

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Robin Wright - Challenges for Reform in the Islamic World

2008-07-09T16:25:53Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Award-winning Washington Post correspondent Robin Wright discusses challenges for democratic and Islamic reforms in the Middle East.

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Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East with journalist Robin Wright in conversation with KCRW's Warren Olney. This program is part of the Los Angeles Public Library's ALOUD speakers and authors program.

Drawing on 35 years of reporting - through wars, revolutions and uprisings - one of America's most prescient journalists offers an insightful reckoning of the changes wracking the Middle East and their impact on its and America's future - Los Angeles Public Library

Robin Wright, who covers foreign policy for The Washington Post, has reported from over 140 countries for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, CBS News, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times and others. She has covered a dozen wars and revolutions in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Warren Olney IV is the host and executive producer of the nationally syndicated PRI program To the Point as well as the long-running local affairs show Which Way, L.A.?, both of which originate at Santa Monica public radio station KCRW.

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Residents struggle as Ogaden conflict simmers - 17 Apr 08

2008-06-06T03:31:43Z

It's one of the world's forgotten struggles - the fight for independence by the eastern Ogaden region of Ethiopia.

The conflict between separatist rebels and the Ethiopian military has turned the area into what's been described as a living hell.

Al Jazeera has gained exclusive access to Ogaden - Mohammed Adow compiled this report.

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Inside Story - The Schengen Agreement - 31 Mar 08 - Part 2

2008-06-12T21:29:28Z

As nine Eastern European countries end border checks, Inside Story examines the Schengen agreement and asks what the negative repercussions of increasingly free trade and movement in Europe may be.

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Inside Story - The Schengen Agreement - 31 Mar 08 - Part 1

2008-09-26T15:44:41Z

As nine Eastern European countries end border checks, Inside Story examines the Schengen agreement and asks what the negative repercussions of increasingly free trade and movement in Europe may be.

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CAIR Asks FBI to Investigate FL Sam's Club Assault

2008-07-15T20:35:39Z

The Tampa Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations today called on the FBI to investigate an assault that involved ethnic slurs as a hate crime.

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Riz Khan - Question of the Week - 10 Dec 07

2008-06-14T03:29:32Z

With more Middle Eastern countries announcing their plans to build nuclear facilities, what impact do you think this will have on the region and the world?

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Riz Khan- Street Talk- 22 October 07

2008-06-15T09:34:36Z

On Riz Khan Street Talk we look at geyser's in eastern Russia that are providing electricity, share some of your online feedback to our Question of the Week, and highlight one cartoonist's opinion of noise pollution.

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R. James Woolsey - An Argument for Energy Independence

2008-06-17T03:32:19Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey makes an argument for American energy independence.

This excerpt is taken from a discussion recorded in collaboration with the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival, and was sponsored in part by Chevron Corporation.

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"A Conversation About Oil: Leaders Respond," with Alexander A. Karsner and R. James Woolsey at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.

In this, its third year, Aspen Ideas Festival once again gathers scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers around some of the most important and fascinating ideas of our time. As these thinkers present their provocative ideas, they engage a sophisticated and highly motivated audience.

R. James Woolsey is vice president of the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and an officer in its global resilience practice. Previously, Woolsey served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and delegate-at-large to the US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks. He has also been a partner in the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC. Woolsey is currently co-chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger, as well as chairman of the advisory boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy.

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South Africa's housing crisis - 20-August-2007

2008-06-17T15:36:01Z

Thirteen years after South Africa's ANC-led government came to power, promising new homes for millions of the country's poor, South Africa still faces a housing crisis.

Haru Mutasa, Al Jazeera's Africa correspondent, reports from the Eastern Cape, where the housing shortage is at its most acute.

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Francis Fukuyama - Radical Islam's Threat to Democracy

2008-07-09T16:25:44Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and author of "The End of History and the Last Man," argues that radical Islam does not pose as effective a long-term challenge to modernity and liberal democracy as many of its critics think.

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"The End Of History Revisited" with Francis Fukuyama speaking at a seminar hosted by The Long Now Foundation.

Frank Fukuyama's 1992 book "The End of History and the Last Man" had profound and lasting impact with its declaration that science and technology, the growing global economy, and liberal democracy are leading history in a quite different direction than Marx and Hegel imagined. In this revisit to those themes, Fukuyama examines conflict with and within Islam, the need for a diffuse form of global governance to deal with problems like climate change, and the deeper implications of biotechnology. - The Long Now Foundation

Professor Fukuyama has worked at several prominent think tanks and public policy organizations, he has served the U.S. Department of State in posts related to Middle East affairs, and is a 2002 appointee to the President's Council on Bioethics.

Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and Director of its International Development Program.

He is the author of "The End of History and the Last Man."

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John Edwards in Whitesburg, Ky.

2008-06-06T03:32:15Z

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Crossroads Europe - Muslim Berliners - 26 Jun 07 - Part 1

2008-06-07T03:31:27Z

In the film Muslim Berliners she looks at the uneasy history of Turkish and Middle Eastern immigrants, many of whom feel German -- but find their allegiances questioned, especially after 9/11.

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Crossroads Europe - Muslim Berliners - 26 Jun 07 - Part 2

2008-06-07T03:31:28Z

In the film Muslim Berliners she looks at the uneasy history of Turkish and Middle Eastern immigrants, many of whom feel German -- but find their allegiances questioned, especially after 9/11.

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People & Power - Another Darfur - 27 Jun 07

2008-06-07T03:31:56Z

People & Power travels to Eastern Sudan to investigate a hidden conflict.

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