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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic debates with audiences in Jordan, Kuwait and Sudan
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic continues to use its multi-media platforms to engage audiences in
conversations across the Middle East and North Africa with a series of debates
discussing issues important to people's lives in Jordan, Kuwait and Sudan.
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As part of a season of programmes exploring workers' rights, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic will
broadcast live from Kuwait on Wednesday 15 November 2006 and from Jordan on Wednesday 29
November at 1500 GMT.
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TheΜύprogrammes involve studioΜύaudiences as well as Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
Arabic listeners who will call in from around the world.
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They will focus on
issues around migrant and domestic workers and the events will be broadcast on
national television in Kuwait and Jordan.ΜύΜύ
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The service's website, bbcarabic.com, will feature video diaries taking an inside
look at the lives of migrant and domestic workers.
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The debates are part of a
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Trust initiative which isΜύsupported, in part,Μύby
the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic will also meet with audiences in Sudan with its Sudan: Voices And
Views From Within roadshow.
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The roadshow features three main topics - the
education of women, migration from the countryside to the city and development
and unemployment.
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The first debate takes place in Khartoum on Monday 4
December before moving to Wad Medani on Wednesday 6 December and then Port
Sudan on Saturday 9 December.
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The debates will broadcast through Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic
flagship programmes Talking Point and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Extra.
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Arabic speakers across the
world will have access to a wide range of in-depth video and audio features
exploring the issues.
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The debates follow Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic's successful five-week Your Future. Who Decides
It? interactive roadshow which met 270,000 young people in Egypt, Jordan,
Sudan, West Bank and Syria earlier this year.
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Notes to Editors
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic is the leading international radio news service in Arabic, and
bbcarabic.com is the leading Arabic online news site.Μύ
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic broadcasts 24-hours a day, every day, with news on the hour, every hour.Μύ
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic
broadcasts to the whole Arab world on short wave and through digital audio
channels on the principal satellites covering the Arab world.Μύ
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In most of the
eastern Arab world, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ broadcasts are heard on medium wave, and in key cities
the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is available on FM.Μύ
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The award-winning website bbcarabic.com also
carries a live audio feed of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic radio.
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Trust is the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's international development charity.
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The trust uses media and communications to reduce poverty and promote human
rights, thereby enabling people to build better lives.Μύ
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Its website is bbcworldservicetrust.org.
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service
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