World Oct 11 ‘Women, War and Peace’ Challenges Notions of Conflict // A new series from WNET challenges the notion that war and peace are domains dominated by men. In each of the five hour-long episodes, 'Women, War, and Peace' highlights a different area of the world where women are…
Arts Oct 07 Al-Bassam Theatre Takes Inspiration From Shakespeare and the Arab Spring Kuwaiti playwright and theater director Sulayman al-Bassam adapts Shakespearean plays to the modern Arab context to explore issues of religion and society in the contemporary Gulf. Art Beat spoke with al-Bassam on the phone from Brooklyn about the effect of…
Arts Oct 06 Transtromer, Swedish Poet With ‘Tinge of Modernism, Surrealism,’ Wins Nobel The 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, the first poet to win the award since 1996. Judges selected Transtromer because, they wrote, "through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."…
Arts Oct 03 Weekly Poem: Remembering Taha Muhammad Ali Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriya. After fleeing to Lebanon during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Muhammad Ali and his family settled in Nazareth where they have lived since. He and his sons…
Arts Sep 21 ‘Last Train Home’ Goes on Long Journey With Chinese Migrant Workers This week on the NewsHour, "Last Train Home," a documentary that looks at the annual migration of millions of factory workers for the Chinese New Year, will be airing as part of our partnership with The Economist Film Project. Jeffrey…
World Sep 01 Irene’s Impact in Vermont: ‘This Was a Very Sad Place’ New Hampshire Public Radio reporter Elaine Grant reports from the neighboring Vermont towns of White River Junction and Hartford on how residents and businesses are faring in the wake of Hurricane Irene's massive flood damage. Read more: For…
Arts Jul 14 ‘Good Fortune’ Looks at Pitfalls, Possibility of Development in Kenya On Thursday's NewsHour, we're looking at the film "Good Fortune," a documentary about international development projects in Kenya that are resisted by the community members they intend to help. It's part of our partnership with The Economist magazine…
Arts Jun 20 Photos from ‘My Perestroika,’ Then and Now "My Perestroika," a documentary by Robin Hessman, follows five ordinary Russians who lived through extraordinary times. Borya, Olga, Andrei, Ruslan, and Lyuba reflect on their Soviet childhoods and navigate today's ever-changing post-Soviet Russia.
World Mar 11 Thousands Displaced as Violence Escalates in Ivory Coast In Ivory Coast, hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled their homes or escaped to neighboring countries as post-election fighting in the West African nation threatens to escalate into civil war, some regional specialists warn. Violence erupted after elections…