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	<title>Wide Angle &#187; Saudi Arabia</title>
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		<title>From Jihad to Rehab: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/introduction/3834/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABOUT THE ISSUE

Fifteen of the 19 hijackers in the attacks of September 11, 2001 were from Saudi Arabia. In the aftermath of the attacks, the Saudi government aggressively pursued domestic terrorists, dismantling Al Qaeda cells and rounding up thousands of people for questioning. But after the bombings on its own soil in Riyadh in 2003, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Haitian PM Ousted, Honduran Rivals Agree to Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and defacto leader Roberto Micheletti agree to a deal that could lead to the creation of a power-sharing government with Zelaya resotred to the presidency. The deal, already hailed as "an historic agreement" by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, must now be approved by the Honduran congress.

In one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Obama Addresses U.N., Co-Ed University Opens in Saudi Arabia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama addresses the U.N. general assembly, touching on issues including climate change, arms reduction, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and says that the U.S. is committed to "a new era of engagement with the world." Directly following Mr. Obama's speech, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi takes the floor.

Earlier this morning, President Obama spoke with Israeli Prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Chechen President Denies Responsibility in Russian&#8217;s Murder, Former Pakistan PM Acquitted of Hijacking</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/blog/world-links/5197/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>milsteinm</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/?p=5197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Coordinated terrorist bombings at the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, leave 9 people dead and at least 50 injured, including a number of foreigners and two suicide bombers. No terrorist group claims responsibility for the attack that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono calls "inhuman and thoughtless," but terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah, tied to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Obama in Middle East, Chinese Firm Buys Hummer from General Motors</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/blog/world-links/4888/</link>
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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>Ten Worst Countries to Be a Blogger</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/ten-worst-countries-to-be-a-blogger/4674/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/ten-worst-countries-to-be-a-blogger/4674/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucy kennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Iran's Evin Prison





The Committee to Protect Journalists names the ten worst countries in the world to be a blogger.

Burma tops the list -- Burmese blogger Maung Thura is serving a 59-year prison sentence for disseminating video footage after Cyclone Nargis last year. 

Runner-up Iran has ordered all bloggers to register their sites with the government, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Female Cabinet Minister</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/blog/first-female-cabinet-minister/4235/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/blog/first-female-cabinet-minister/4235/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucy kennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rawan Jabaji 

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia shook up his kingdom by boldly appointing the first female minister to his government cabinet earlier this week.

Norah al-Faiz is now the deputy minister of women’s education -- the most senior role ever held by a woman in Saudi Arabia.

Though al-Faiz occupies a new post, she is still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Jihad to Rehab: And Back</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/and-back/4180/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/and-back/4180/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/?p=4180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eleven former Guantanamo inmates who underwent Saudi Arabia's rehabilitation program for jihadists now appear to have fled the country and joined terrorist organizations abroad. Their names appear on a list of 85 wanted terrorism suspects that was released by the Saudi government on Tuesday.

At least one these suspects, Said al-Shihri -- now reportedly serving as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Jihad to Rehab: Nancy Durham: Filmmaker Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/nancy-durham-filmmaker-notes/3839/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/nancy-durham-filmmaker-notes/3839/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Nancy Durham is a Canadian journalist who reports from around the world for the CBC.



I have always been drawn to stories of survival in war and revolution. I covered Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution in 1989 and spent the ‘90s reporting on the Balkan wars from all corners of the former Yugoslavia. In 2004, I was embedded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Jihad to Rehab: Watch the Focal Point Episode</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/watch-the-focal-point-episode/3826/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/watch-the-focal-point-episode/3826/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Please view the original post to see the video.
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		<title>From Jihad to Rehab: Audio: Why Militants Quit</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/audio-why-militants-quit/3833/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/audio-why-militants-quit/3833/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. John Horgan is the director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Penn State University. In researching the question of how and why militants disengage from terrorist movements, Horgan has interviewed former terrorists from Ireland to Indonesia.

FOCAL POINT spoke to Dr. Horgan about the Saudi program for the rehabilitation of former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Jihad to Rehab: Slideshow: Art Therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/slideshow-art-therapy/3809/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/from-jihad-to-rehab/slideshow-art-therapy/3809/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Saudi Arabia's experimental rehabilitation center for former jihadists, art therapy is used to teach participants to express themselves non-violently. The prevalent interpretation of Islamic law forbids the depiction of people or animals, so most of the drawings are graphic, and some incorporate verses from the Koran and other text. Click on the images below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About FOCAL POINT</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/about-the-series/about-focal-point/3807/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/about-the-series/about-focal-point/3807/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[human stories. global issues. online.

Launched in December 2008, FOCAL POINT is an online-exclusive series of documentary shorts from Wide Angle, public television’s Emmy Award-winning international affairs documentary series. Like Wide Angle, FOCAL POINT offers a deeper understanding into the forces shaping the world today through compelling human stories, with FOCAL POINT providing a venue for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedazzled Abayas</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/bedazzled-abayas/3432/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/bedazzled-abayas/3432/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rawan Jabaji






Jabaji and her mother in abayas, in Saudi Arabia.



The clothing police are cracking down on streaks of vibrant color, bands of glittering crystal and sexy leopard skin prints popping up on the runway—or rather, in this case, in Saudi Arabia's marketplaces.

Women in Saudi Arabia are required to wear abayas, or shapeless robes, in public [...]]]></description>
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