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	<title>Wide Angle &#187; Lebanon</title>
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		<title>Pilgrimage to Karbala: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Photos: Adam Toy



In the summer of 2006, as the Iranian-backed Hezbollah fought off Israelis in Lebanon and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faced down President George Bush at the United Nations, a bus full of Iranian pilgrims left Tehran on a journey to the holy city of Karbala, deep inside a shattered Iraq. "Pilgrimage To Karbala" follows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contestant No. 2: Slideshow: Who Are the Druze?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thompsonc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Druze are a tight-knit social and religious community of mostly Arab descent with an estimated one million members worldwide. Most Druze live in Syria, Lebanon and Israel, and about 40,000 live in the United States. They do not allow conversion to their religion, and only the child of a Druze mother and a Druze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Nasrallah Concedes Defeat in Lebanon, Brown Urged to Step Down in the U.K.</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/interactives-extras/interviews/world-links/4923/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah concedes defeat to the Western-leaning March 14 coalition in yesterday's highly-contested elections in Lebanon.

American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for "hostile acts" after the pair allegedly entered North Korean territory illegally while reporting a story about North Korean refugees in China.

Center-right parties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: U.K.&#8217;s Prime Minister Refuses to Resign, Suicide Bomber Kills 30 in Mosque Blast</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/world-links/4920/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thompsonc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama visits the former concentration camp, Buchenwald, in Germany, in a symbolic visit, saying the camp "is the ultimate rebuke" to Holocaust deniers. His great uncle helped liberate a satellite camp of Buchenwald in 1945.

Lebanon's political parties wrap up their campaigns for a general election on Sunday between pro-Western factions and an alliance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Biden Visits Beirut, Fighting Rages in Mogadishu</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ernsta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden arrives in Beirut ahead of June parliamentary elections. He's the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Lebanon since the early 1980s.

Pakistan troops claim they have encircled the Taliban in the Swat Valley. Fighting there has displaced over two million civilians.

A radio journalist is killed in Somalia as government troops battle al-Shabab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Explosion in Lebanon, Elections in Macedonia</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/blog/world-links/4417/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An explosion in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills 4 people, including senior Fatah official Medhat Kamal.

Appearing before an Indian court on the first day of his trial, the only surviving suspect in last year's Mumbai attacks says he's from Pakistan.

Elections in Macedonia are free of the violence that marred last year's elections; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future for Lebanon: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/future-for-lebanon/introduction/950/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Film

The assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Valentine's Day 2005 prompted hundreds of thousands of Lebanese to take to the streets in a powerful show of national unity. Their 'Cedar Revolution' drove out Syrian troops after 29 years of occupation, just ahead of the parliamentary elections in May and June. Can Lebanon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future for Lebanon: Timeline: Lebanon from 1920 to 2005</title>
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		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/future-for-lebanon/timeline-lebanon-from-1920-to-2005/2418/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana cofresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





April 1920
With the end of World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Allies give France a mandate over Greater Syria


Sept. 1, 1920
France divides Greater Syria into Syria and Lebanon


1926
Lebanon draws up its constitution, dividing power between major religious groups


1943
Lebanon gains independence from France, whose troops withdraw completely in 1946


1958
Civil war; U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future for Lebanon: Filmmaker Notes: Director Paul Mitchell</title>
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		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/future-for-lebanon/filmmaker-notes-director-paul-mitchell/2386/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[




Photo of Director Paul Mitchell



The roots of the film go back to the end of 2004.

Several of us at Wilton Films had been involved in various ways with the "people's power" revolutions of recent years.

I had spent a lot of time in Yugoslavia during the war there and a lot of close friends had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future for Lebanon: The Struggle for Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/future-for-lebanon/the-struggle-for-lebanon/2385/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/future-for-lebanon/the-struggle-for-lebanon/2385/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Soldiers control a crowd at an anti-Syrian demonstration



Can Lebanon, a country of 18 different ethnic groups that fought a 15-year civil war, now achieve true independence and overcome renewed divisions within?  

 by Michael Young
July 2005

There is gloom in Lebanon these days, as the public feels little has really changed since the Syrian Army [...]]]></description>
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