The annual Army-Navy football game is one of the few opportunities for civilian types to have a front row seat to military culture. War News Radio’s Amy DiPierro went to this year’s match-up expecting to find soldiers playing air guitar on their M16s and cadets doing one-armed pushups on the…
TRANSCRIPT Host Intro: When we think of the Arab Spring, the countries Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Tunisia come to mind. But what about Morocco? Elliana Bisgaard-Church has a conversation with Moroccan political sociologist Younes Abouyoub about the country’s protest groups demanding change, their splits in ideology, and the possibility of…
This month on War News Radio, “Back to Work “. First, we examine the problem of youth unemployment in Morocco. Then, we look into the persecution of physicians in Syria. Finally, we hear about a peace activist whose surprising devotion to the cause didn’t seem to match his flat personality.
TRANSCRIPT ANCHOR INTRO The majority of the Middle East currently faces a youth bulge, which many policy analysts have deemed as the single most important development problem in the Middle East. Reporter Elliana Bisgaard-Church examines a lesser-known facet of the phenomenon in Morocco, looking at the issue of unemployment and…
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A round up of this week’s news. Violence continues in Syria despite UN ceasefire, airstrikes on the border between Sudan and South Sudan leave thousands displaced, India and Pakistan exchange nuclear-capabale ballistic missile tests, Western powers move forward with sanctions against Iran, and Egypt allows Mubarak’s last PM to run…