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03/29/10--12:17: Worldfocus special edition on deadly diseases (chan 1156444)

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03/30/10--09:46: Preserving memories of terror and loss in Argentina (chan 1156444)

A woman walks along one of the slabs at the Memorial Parque to the disappeared in Buenos Aires. Photo: Peter Eisner I was irritated some weeks ago by the comments of Jose Moya, a Barnard College professor, who said on Worldfocus that Argentinians have increasingly little memory of the “Dirty War” of the 1970s and 1980s. [...]


03/30/10--13:17: Special edition on women in the developing world (chan 1156444)

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03/31/10--13:01: Migrants stranded en route to Europe (chan 1156444)

Last year, during a trip to Morocco, Worldfocus correspondent Hoda Osman, producer Rebecca Haggerty, and cameraperson Megan Thompson visited the autonomous city of Melilla. There they met dozens of migrants desperate to get to Europe. Translations courtesy of United Sikhs. Please view the original post to see the video.


03/31/10--14:00: Worldfocus special edition on technology (chan 1156444)

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04/01/10--09:23: On the road in Mumbai with a Muslim female taxi driver (chan 1156444)

For her project The Taxi Takes on Terror, freelance documentary filmmaker Vandana Sood reported from India's largest city last year through conversations with the cab drivers. In the course of her interviews, she meets a young female cabbie in Mumbai whose identity reveals a surprisingly complex convergence of faith, fashion and femininity.


04/01/10--11:21: Moroccan hip-hop group fuses traditional music with rap (chan 1156444)

During a reporting trip to Morocco last year, Worldfocus' Hoda Osman, Rebecca Haggerty and Megan Thompson met the members of hip-hop group H-Kayne. Please view the original post to see the video. We met up with H-Kayne in a Meknes studio while reporting on a story about Sufism. Their biggest hit, "Issawa Style," pays tribute to the renowned Sufi brotherhood of the [...]


04/01/10--13:45: Worldfocus special edition on 21st century Africa (chan 1156444)

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04/02/10--08:00: At home with Moroccan champions (chan 1156444)

Last year while on a reporting trip to Morocco, producer Rebecca Haggerty and producer/cameraperson Megan Thompson met an unusual family. The El Gaara sisters, who live in Rabat, Morocco, are athletic champions who compete in Paralympics against other athletes with dwarfism. Their story came to the attention of Moroccan filmmaker Reda Fakhar, who used it as [...]


04/02/10--10:55: Worldfocus special edition: slices of life around the globe (chan 1156444)

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04/02/10--10:56: Perspectives from around the world (chan 1156444)




04/02/10--10:57: Behind the scenes in the Worldfocus newsroom (chan 1156444)




04/02/10--10:58: Web original videos from Worldfocus (chan 1156444)




04/02/10--10:59: Worldfocus brings you stories from around the globe (chan 1156444)




04/02/10--11:00: 21st Century Africa (chan 1156444)




04/02/10--11:01: One Night That Shook the World (chan 1156444)




04/02/10--11:02: Lending a Helping Hand (chan 1156444)




04/02/10--11:03: Women in the Developing World (chan 1156444)




04/02/10--11:04: Renewable Energy in Denmark (chan 1156444)




04/02/10--11:55: Worldfocus staff and contributors say goodbye (chan 1156444)

Martin Savidge in the Worldfocus studio. Martin Savidge, who hosted the show for much of its run, comments on the end of the program: Well, gang, our nightly global road trip has come to an end. There’s no point dwelling on the why. Sometimes that is just the way it is. Even so, I will miss the show [...]