Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Egypt's staged election
By  • 8 March 2018
Egypt will hold a presidential election at the end of this month. But there’s little drama about who will actually win. President Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, who led a 2013 coup against the country’s first democratically elected…
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Floggings may resume for Saudi blogger
By  • 11 June 2015
Saudi Arabia may resume the public flogging of a blogger convicted of "insulting Islam through electronic channels" after the country's Supreme Court upheld his sentence of 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes. The whippings…
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Book talk: "Arab Women Rising"
By  • 30 October 2014
This episode of Global Journalist originally aired in August 2014. Following the Arab Spring, gender equality between men and women in the Middle East is improving. Women today have more opportunities, both in business and…
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The psychology of Western jihadis
By  • 9 October 2014
Our attention this week turns, once again, to the Islamic State and the ongoing fighting in the Middle East. Recent videos from the militant group have featured people not from the West fighting for ISIS'…
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Book talk: "Arab Women Rising"
By  • 21 August 2014
Following the Arab Spring, gender equality between men and women in the Middle East is improving. Women today have more opportunities, both in business and in society, than they did in previous years. Two journalists…
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Conflict between Israel, Hamas intensifies
By  • 17 July 2014
For the third time in six years, major fighting has broken out between Israel and Hamas. Last month, three Israeli teens were abducted and killed in the West Bank, an attack Israel blamed on Hamas.…
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Free Press Watch: Middle East
By  • 17 March 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH8CC-VyPmc&list=UUCIsbjh-gexWhBr4LGMj-Ow&feature=share In this week's free press watch, a Swedish-British journalist is targeted and killed in Afghanistan, an Iraqi suicide bomber kills 45, including 2 journalists on assignment, and 2 more journalists in Syria died while…
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