After 6 seasons, Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal will end on Oct 9th. We have appreciated your support and
hope you have enjoyed this program as much as we have enjoyed making it. We encourage you to continue your attention
to international affairs as we live in a time when awareness to events beyond our borders is becoming more and more of
an imperative.
New Delhi’s oldest Durga Puja is going green to save the Yamuna river. Read more
here
Read more about the correlation between the looming water crisis in the Middle East and Turkey’s membership in the
European Union
here
Behind the lavish celebrations of its 60th anniversary, China is facing a very real problem of desertification.
See more of Sean Gallagher’s photos from his "China’s Growing Sands" report
here
This week Foreign Exchange features the following line-up:
Uyghur-American attorney and activist, Nury A. Turkel, discusses the plight of the Uyghurs from Xjingjang Province
to Guantanamo Bay
And a film about the Indian diaspora and it's influence on American business
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Buckling under economic pressure from China, Taiwan officials have decided to block Rebiya Kadeer’s visit in
December. Read more
here
Read more from Nury A. Turkel on the Uyghur situation
here
President Obama’s Chief Technology Officer is specifically reaching out to Indian American entrepreneurs in
Silicon Valley for help shaping the Administration’s technology initiatives. Read more
here
This week Foreign Exchange features the following line-up:
Janusz Bugajski returns to discuss this summer’s violence in Chechnya and Ingushetia
Then, a film about fair trade coconut farming in Sri Lanka
And a discussion of literacy in Asia with Melody Zavala, Director of Books for Asia
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The president of Chechnya said on Friday that militant leaders operating in the republic would be eliminated
within a year or “starve to death.” Read more about the situation
here
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, The Manilla International Book Fair is the longest running book fair in Asia.
Find out more about this unique fair and their efforts to promote literacy
here
Learn more about Ecovative’s natural packaging
here
This week Foreign Exchange features the following line-up:
Journalist Nir Rosen joins us for an in depth discussion after being embedded with U.S. Marines in Helmand
Province, Afghanistan. He has been covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003
And a Pulitzer Center-sponsored report on education in Afghanistan
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Michael Yon is an independent journalist embedded with troops in Afghanistan. His reports and stunning photos can
be found
here
Noah Millman reevaluates the U.S. mission in Afghanistan
here
Insects may be the answer to our looming food crisis. Read the report from The Guardian's Environment Blog
here
This week Foreign Exchange features the following line-up:
An update on the global recession with economist Uri Dadush
A preview of the next installment of Wide Angle's "Time for School" series
And an in depth discussion with Omer Taspinar about answering the Kurdish question in Turkey and Iraq
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Japanese department stores are hurting as consumers prefer to buy online during this recession. Research
institutes estimate online shopping sales have increased 22% or $67.2 billion. Read more
here
Read more about the role of water in relations between Turkey, Iraq and Syria
here
Truth/Slant's Joshua Kucera is in Mongolia on the first day of school, and so is Genghis Khan. Read more here
This week Foreign Exchange features the following line-up:
An overview of the upcoming German elections with Gabor Steingart, Senior Washington Correspondent of Der Spiegel
A preview of Wide Angle's latest addition to their "Time for School" series
And an in depth discussion with Trita Parsi about Iranian-American relations and the sanctions Congress might
impose after the August recess
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Iran's nuclear program will be a major issue at the UN General Assembly and six-nation talks in September. Read
more
here
In an effort to avoid bankruptcy, General Motors is considering selling a controlling stake of it's European car
making
division. Chancellor Merkel threw her political weight behind the bid in an effort to save German jobs and
manufacturing before the coming election. Read more
here
All around the world children are heading back to school and with them a possible flu pandemic. Is India prepared
to tackle H1N1? Read more here
After last year's gas crisis that left most of Western Europe in the cold, the European Union is looking to
diversify it's energy suppliers. Read more
here
Dubbed "the Russian Obama," Joaquim Ivanovich is an African-born watermelon salesman campaigning to become a
district chief in Southern Russia. If he's successful, he'll be the first black man to be elected to public office in
the country. Read more here
Independence day celebrations in Ukraine were marred with pro-Russian rally. Relations between the two countries
remain tense. Read more
here
This week Foreign Exchange features the following line-up:
A look at the complexities and possible solutions to the disputed Kashmir region
Insights into the ongoing trials of Iranian protesters from Haleh Esfandiari whose imprisonment in the notorious
Evin Prison is documented in her forthcoming memoir "My Prison, My Home"
Then we introduce a new segment that features exceptional Americans whose lives began in other parts of the world.
Our first subject likes to say he was raised in Brooklyn by way of Kashmir
This week Foreign Exchange features the following line-up:
An in depth discussion about Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's 7-nation tour and the Obama administration's
policies towards Africa with Emira Woods of
Foreign Policy in Focus
Then a preview of a new Wide Angle film that takes you ringside at Havana's Boxing Academy
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Big trouble in little Eritrea: First Clinton threatens sanctions for supplying weapons to a
Somali extremist
group
Read more about Andrea Lari? recent trip to assess the conditions of Colombian refugees in Ecuador and Venezuela
here
"Afghan Star" shows how the fizzy "American Idol" concept becomes something profound when set in war-ridden
Afghanistan. Read more from this LA Times article
here
This week Foreign Exchange features the following line-up:
An in-depth look at the riddle of North Korea with John Park of the United States Institute of Peace
A preview of a new film about finding the middle ground between the Druze religion and the Miss Israel swimsuit
competition
related links...
For more on North Korea, read the USIP report "North Korea, Inc.: Gaining Insights into North Korean Regime
Stability from Recent Commercial Activities." .pdf available
here
Who are the Druze? Learn more about this tight-knit social and religious community
here
This week Foreign Exchange features the following line-up:
Former Vice President of Costa Rica discusses the political meltdown in Honduras and a way forward
A short film about one woman's efforts to develop a business model to solve world hunger
From the election crisis in Iran to moving towards peace in Palestine, Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief of
Al Arabiya, sorts out politics in the
Middle East
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The situation in Honduras remains tense. US-backed talks in Costa Rica on Saturday are seen as a last chance to
end the crisis. Read more
here
Fighting hunger with a children's book? Print out your own copy of the World Food Programme's story "Snow
Leopard, the Yeti and the Girl who climbed
Mount Everest"
here
The result of the Iranian presidential election is still being contested. Regardless, find out who the real
losers are
here
