PRI's The World: April 1, 2013
by The World
We examine the freedom of expression, post-Arab Spring, in the wake of the detention of a popular comedian in Egypt. Also, how corruption impacts immigrant cab drivers in Boston. Plus, the story behind an interracial punk band that challenged South Africa's apartheid divisions.
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Bidding for Tuna at the Biggest Fish Market in the World
Today's Geo Quiz takes us to a famous fish market in central Tokyo. Each morning well before the sun comes up, tons and tons of frozen tuna are unloaded, packed in ice and and spread out for auction. Steve Dolinksy sent us a postcard from the biggest wholesale fish market in the world.
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Tattoo Culture Along the Texas-Mexico Border
Tattoos are symbols of identity and self-expression: they can represent attachment to another person or a place. These are trying times at the US-Mexican border, and many of the tattoo designs there reflect that life, as The World's Jason Margolis found out in the Rio Grande Valley, in corner of...
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How a Young Afghan Girl Almost Got Sold in Marriage
A story appearing in the print edition of the New York Times had to be updated online. It told the story of a six year-old girl in a Kabul refugee camp who was going to be sold in marriage to pay off a debt. Her father had borrowed money to cover the cost of his wife's hospital care. But after…
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Syrian Armenian Refugees Back President Assad
Among the more than one million Syrians who've fled the war are Syrians of Armenian descent. About 10,000 have made their way to Armenia. Unlike most Syrian refugees, they're Christian. And many of them fear that if Syrian Bashar al-Assad leaves, they can never go home again.
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Comedian Bassem Yousef Tests Freedom of Speech in the New Egypt
The arrest of Egyptian satirist, Bassem Yousef, over the weekend made us ask how freedom of expression has evolved in the nations affected by the Arab Spring. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with middle east expert, Michael Wahid Hanna at the Century Foundation.
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PRI's The World: Latest Edition - 04/01/2013
We examine the freedom of expression, post-Arab Spring, in the wake of the detention of a popular comedian in Egypt. Also, how corruption impacts immigrant cab drivers in Boston. Plus, the story behind an interracial punk band that challenged South Africa's apartheid divisions.
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South African Punk Band National Wake
A documentary tells the story of National Wake, a South African punk band that challenged the country's apartheid divisions in the 1970's. Unfortunately, the group didn't last very long, as reporter Mirissa Neff tells us.
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We examine the freedom of expression, post-Arab Spring, in the wake of the detention of a popular comedian in Egypt. Also, how corruption impacts immigrant cab drivers in Boston. Plus, the story behind an interracial punk band that challenged South Africa's apartheid divisions.
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