Apr 06 Watch Author Explores Both Sides of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Author and peace advocate David Grossman has become one of his Israel's leading writers exploring the toll that war and occupation have taken on both Israelis and Palestinians. Jeffrey Brown talks with Grossman about being a writer amid the conflict. Continue watching
Apr 05 Watch Former Child Soldier Recalls Experiences in Sierra Leone Ishmael Beah, who spent three years as a child soldier in his native Sierra Leone before being rescued by UNICEF, recounts his experiences in his new memoir, "A Long Way Gone."… Continue watching
Apr 05 Ethnicity in Nigeria By PBS News Hour Despite being home to somewhere between 250 and 400 ethnic groups, Nigeria is primarily made up of four main ethnic groups -- Hausa, Fulani, Igbo and Yoruba -- that comprise about 60 percent of the population. Continue reading
Apr 04 Watch Essayist Looks at a Singer and His City NewsHour essayist Clarence Page shares some thoughts about Bob Seger and Detriot. He asks what happens to factory rock music when the factories are gone. Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch Palestinian Architect Now Rebuilds with Words Suad Amiry, a Palestinian architect who is now an author, tries to rebuild her world with both physical structures and with words. This report is a continuation of a NewsHour series on writers in the Middle East. Continue watching
Mar 29 Watch 7:51 Supreme Court Justice Puts Hamlet on Trial By PBS News Hour Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy presided over a "trial" of Hamlet in a Kennedy Center production taking place during a six-month celebration of Shakespeare in Washington, D.C. Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Group in India Targets Sex Trade An organization in India is fighting forced prostitution by counseling and training women in other forms of work and helping their children so they don't follow in their mothers' footsteps. Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television provides… Continue watching
Mar 22 Ghassan Zaqtan Reads 'Four Sisters from Zacharia' in Arabic By newshourpoetry Ghassan Zaqtan was born in 1954 near Bethlehem and lives in Ramallah. He has worked with the Palestinian resistance movement and was editor of "Bayader" literary magazine of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is editor-in-chief of the quarterly poetry journal… Continue reading
Mar 22 Ghassan Zaqtan By newshourpoetry Poet Ghassan Zaqtan reads some of his poems. Continue reading
Mar 22 Samih al-Qasim Reads 'End of the Talk with a Jailer' By newshourpoetry Samih al-Qasim was born in 1939 in Zarqa, Jordan. He grew up in the village of Rama in northern Palestine and was a leading figure of the "resistance poets" of the 1950s. He has written more than thirty books of… Continue reading