
Commentary by World Pulse founder Jensine Larsen Growing up my playgrounds were the fields and streams surrounding our old farmhouse in the hills of rural Wisconsin. I learned the rhythms of insects and birds, the song of the frogs lining our creek, and the language of the wind in the cottonwood tree from which [...]
May 24 2010 | Posted in
Opinion,
~Amazon |
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Women News Network – WNN Podcasts release Esra’a Al Shafei, founder of Mideast Youth, interviews Negar Mottahedeh about her 2008 Syracuse University Press book release, “Representing the Unpresentable.” Their discussion highlights women and the visual history and reform in Iran from the 19th century to the present. What are the historic and the contemporary images [...]

AASHA MEHREEN AMIN in Bangladesh - WNN Features New innovative flexible learning centres are helping girls stay in school Dhaka: In Bangladesh, family poverty and poor quality state education forces millions of children out of primary school. Girls in particular lose out as they are often the first to be called on to get [...]
May 12 2010 | Posted in
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Two Israeli and Jordanian journalists tell the story no one else will Commentary by Ruth Eglash and Hani Hazaimeh Jerusalem/Amman – It was supposed to be an exercise in cross-cultural reporting: find a story that would highlight the common humanity shared by all nations and peoples. As a Jordanian and an Israeli we were a [...]
May 10 2010 | Posted in
Opinion,
~Jordan |
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