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		<title>World Links: Obama in Middle East, Chinese Firm Buys Hummer from General Motors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thompsonc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama launches a landmark Middle East trip on Wednesday to reach out to the world's Muslims, meeting first with Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh, and then heading to Cairo for a highly anticipated speech. Osama bin Laden releases a new audiotape in time with the visit.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg visits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dishing Democracy: Discussion Guide Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dishing Democracy goes behind the scenes at Arab television channel MBC in Cairo and its hit all-female talk show, Kalam Nawaem. Similar in style to ABC's The View, the top-rated program is hosted by four hosts of different ages, nationalities, and points of view who tackle such sensitive issues as homosexuality, domestic violence, women voting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dishing Democracy: Satellite TV Spurs Evolutionary Democracy in the Arab World</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/lessons/dishing-democracy/satellite-tv-spurs-evolutionary-democracy-in-the-arab-world/4337/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marda Dunsky

Download the PDF here.



The right of citizens to freely elect representative governments is the hallmark of democratic societies. While this right is not widely enjoyed in the Arab world, democratization in Arab societies has nevertheless taken root -- bolstered by media technologies that bypass government control and put the potential for change in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dishing Democracy: Themes and Video Segments</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/lessons/dishing-democracy/themes-and-video-segments/4339/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
photo credit: Kalam Nawaem
Themes
ISLAM AND THE WEST: Every Sunday night throughout the Middle East and around the world, millions of viewers tune in to an all-female talk show, Kalam Nawaem. Originally inspired by ABC's The View, the satellite television program runs the gamut from dishing about husbands and marriage to confronting social and political taboos.

LEGAL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dishing Democracy: Video Segment 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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This segment introduces the hosts of Kalam Nawaem -- Fawzia Salama, Rania Barghout, Muna AbuSulayman, and Farah Besiso -- and describes the program's history and impact.]]></description>
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		<title>Dishing Democracy: Video Segment 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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Satellite TV reaches nearly 300 million Arabic speakers worldwide. Even though independent commercial media companies like MBC have bypassed direct government control and national borders, the station still has to monitor what it broadcasts.]]></description>
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		<title>Dishing Democracy: Video Segment 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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A gay man who was invited to be on Kalam Nawaem feared for his life and was interviewed by phone instead.  While a gay man has still not appeared on the program, a famous actor who plays a gay character in the film The Yacoubian Building was a guest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dishing Democracy: Video Segment 4</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/lessons/dishing-democracy/video-segment-4/4701/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
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Muna AbuSulayman talks about her life as a Muslim feminist and what it's like for her to appear on Kalam Nawaem. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dishing Democracy: Vocabulary and Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/lessons/dishing-democracy/vocabulary-and-resources/4553/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the PDF here.


photo credit: Daisy Mohr
Vocabulary
cultural diffusion: a process in which one culture's ideas and values are adopted by another

freedom of speech: the right to express opinions and ideas without the fear of punishment

government oversight: supervision by a country's official authorities

media: mass communications including television, radio, and the Web

social reform: attempts to achieve positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oprah in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/oprah-in-the-middle-east/4134/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/oprah-in-the-middle-east/4134/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The introduction of satellite television in the late 1990s has had a profound effect on Middle Eastern society. Until then, state-run programming was about the only option for most people in the region. Today, viewers in the Arab world can watch anything from Al Jazeera to The Oprah Winfrey Show. 

Oprah now reaches over 6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the New Administration</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/meet-the-new-administration/4129/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/meet-the-new-administration/4129/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, George Mitchell, Leon Panetta, Susan Rice, Dennis Ross, Gene Sperling and Tom Vilsack all have in common? They're all expected to serve in high-level positions in the Obama administration, and they've all appeared as distinguished guests on WIDE ANGLE. Watch the videos below to hear what members (and potential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dishing Democracy: Handbook: Satellite Television in the Arab World</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dishing-democracy/handbook-satellite-television-in-the-arab-world/1843/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dishing-democracy/handbook-satellite-television-in-the-arab-world/1843/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The introduction of satellite television in the Middle East in the early 1990s completely transformed its media landscape. Satellite channels set in motion the emergence of modern TV journalism, live debate and reality TV. The number of satellite channels has tripled since 2004, and, today, the majority of households in the region have satellite TV.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dishing Democracy: Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dishing-democracy/resources/1841/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dishing-democracy/resources/1841/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ARAB MEDIA

Programs, Films and New Media
	Abu Ardvark, a Blog by Marc Lynch
Marc Lynch is a political science professor at Williams College, and the author of numerous publications on Arab Media, including "Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today."
	FRONTLINE/World "War of Ideas"
This documentary, which was part IV of FRONTLINE's "News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pickles, Inc.: Data: Events, Women and Galilee</title>
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		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/pickles-inc/data-events-women-and-galilee/2469/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana cofresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Middle East and Africa
Female literacy rates in the Arab world today range from 28% to 73%. Between 1970 and 1990, six Arab countries ranked among the world's top twelve countries in increasing their female literacy rates: Saudi Arabia raised its female literacy rate from 2 to 48%; Jordan from 29 to 70%; Tunisia from 17 [...]]]></description>
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