| Worldview 11/20/2009 |
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| We'll continue our series on higher education in the Middle East with a look at Iranian universities. |
| Worldview 11/19/2009 |
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Our series on Higher Education in the Middle East continues with a look at how Qatar wooed big-name Western universities to its "Education City". And, we profile American University of Beirut (AUB), the oldest American-run school in the region. |
| Worldview 11/18/2009 |
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As part of our week-long series on Higher Education in the Middle East, we discuss the boom of private universities in Syria. |
| Worldview 11/17/2009 |
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| We'll continue our series on higher education in the Middle East with a look at Saudi Arabia. |
| Worldview 11/16/2009 |
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While Europe was in the Dark Ages, literature, the sciences and medicine flourished in the Middle East. Today, we look at “golden age” of learning in the Middle East. |
| Worldview 11/13/2009 |
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| Historic events often make great fodder for the motion picture industry, but Worldview film contributor Milos Stehlik says there’s yet to be a good flick about the fall of the Berlin Wall. He’ll share his thoughts. |
| Worldview 11/12/2009 |
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| This week's Global Activism features a Chicago area dentist who teaches dentistry in developing countries with little or no access to basic care. |
| Worldview 11/11/2009 |
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In our weekly Global Notes segment, the festival organizer of Chicago’s Cuatro Festival stops by to talk about the annual event’s inspiration: the Puerto Rican instrument known as the cuatro. |
| Worldview 11/10/2009 |
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| We'll talk about Palestinian prisoners with the former head of Israel's secret service and a Palestinian human rights activist.
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| Worldview 11/9/2009 |
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| On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we'll listen to the stories of eyewitnesses who experienced the Iron Curtain first-hand.
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| Worldview 11/6/2009 |
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Today we talk about struggling refugee resettlement programs in Illinois. |
| Worldview 11/5/2009 |
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| In recent years, peacekeeping has often involved armed military forces. We talk with two women who want to see peacekeeping return to its non-violent origins. |
| Worldview 11/4/2009 |
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Today we'll discuss human rights violations in the Philippines. |
| Worldview 11/3/2009 |
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| The Canadian government forced Ukrainians and other Europeans into internment camps during World War I. We hear from a researcher who stumbled upon the little known story... |
| Worldview 11/2/2009 |
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Honduras' de facto government agreed to a deal that opens the door for the return of President Manuel Zelaya. We’ll talk with a local organization that just returned from Honduras. Also, we get updated on the political situation in Iran. And, one out of five children worldwide dies from pneumonia. We’ll talk with a pediatrician back from Bangladesh, where he witnessed pneumonia's deadly effects. |