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Back to SearchHow rising prices in the Middle East are pushing people into poverty
Episode 269
When you hear of Arab cuisine, what imagery does it conjure up?
Hummus, bulgur wheat, meat, chicken and spices like sumac, cumin and cinnamon. Lavish…
4 years, 3 months ago
When and how can America stop the mass shootings?
Episode 268
On 14 May, a white gunman in body armour killed 10 black shoppers and workers at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Ten days later, an attacker shot…
4 years, 4 months ago
What can be done to stop the tide of dust storms?
Episode 267
The sky turns orange as a huge cloud of dust rolls toward you. Your vision is impaired and your chest feels tight as you struggle to draw breath.
Yo…
4 years, 4 months ago
Davos 2022 biggest takeaways
Episode 266
The Berlin Wall fell more than three decades ago, precipitating a generational collapse of political and economic boundaries in Europe. Now, in 2022,…
4 years, 4 months ago
Will the Lebanese election be a turning point?
Episode 265
People across Lebanon cast their votes last Sunday in an election that was meant to be different.
So much has happened since the last poll, in 2018,…
4 years, 4 months ago
Sheikh Khalifa’s legacy
Episode 264
President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed died on May 13, 2022, at the age of 73.
He was born in September 1948, before the UAE existed as a single nation a…
4 years, 5 months ago
Is the Covid-19 pandemic over?
Episode 263
On May 16, the European Union will no longer require people to wear masks on planes.
Many countries around the world have already started to relax Co…
4 years, 5 months ago
The desperation that drove refugees from Lebanon to their deaths at sea
Episode 262
Late one Saturday night towards the end of April, a boat set off to sea from near Lebanon’s second city, Tripoli. It was an ageing craft, nearly 50 y…
4 years, 5 months ago
Is Rwanda really the solution to Britain’s migrant issue?
Episode 261
Rescued from the choppy seas of the English Channel or landing on the windswept beaches of the east of England, over the last three years thousands o…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Ramadan food crisis
Episode 260
Muslims around the world are marking the first Ramadan in three years to take place largely without Covid-19 restrictions. But now another crisis is …
4 years, 5 months ago