RADIO: Lebanon's Identity Crisis: The
Musical [mini-doc] September 17, 2009
Beirut's alternative music scene has
abandoned English and French, reclaiming
Arabic in the past few years. Now some
are trying to bring the trend global and
it's not going down well with everyone
in Beirut... [11'14]
Almost twenty years after over 100,000 ethnic Nepalese residents of Bhutan were expelled, the refugee camps they still inhabit, scattered across nearby eastern Nepal, have become crucibles for an insurgency that is now poised to threaten Bhutan as it settles into newly-established democracy.
Lebanon proposes to rebuild Nahr al-Bared, the Palestinian city-camp near Tripoli pulverised in a long siege last year in an attempt to kill Sunni militants holed up there. The new, as yet only imagined, town is intended to preserve the memories of the old, yet return the area to the control of Lebanon.
RADIO: A Tale of Two Camps May 2008
[11'50] Lebanon is a country of about four million - a volatile mix of religious a sects including Christians and Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Add to that the fact that an estimated one in ten there is a Palestinian refugee and the mix becomes even more volatile. Most of the Palestinians remain confined in ghetto-like refugee camps scattered throughout the country, dependent on welfare form the United Nations. Over the years, string bonds have grown between the Palestinians, an unwelcome population in Lebanon, but as reporter Don Duncan tells us, those bonds, those bonds are beginning to fray. (10 mins, unaired)
RADIO: To Stay or To Go - Pt. 1 May 2007
[10'27] The 300 year old push-and-pull character of migration from Ireland to the America has reversed over the pas decade. Ireland;s booming economy has begun pulling people back to the country while America's tightened immigration policies have pushed many of those affected by it out
In the first of a three part series, Don Duncan looks at how these changes have caused some to pack up and go home while others stay - often illegally - against the odds.
(10 mins, aired on Newstalk, Ireland)
RADIO: To Stay or to Go - Pt. 2 May 2007
[8'52] The Ireland of high unemployment from which so many left in the 80s is no more. It has experienced a continuous economic boom since the mid 90s. the economic phenomenon - known as the Celtic Tiger - changed the country dramatically.
For many Irish in America, like Fran Browner, now is the right time to return home. In the second part of a three part series, Don Duncan looks at this reversal, where Ireland has become a land of opportunity for those going back.
(10 mins, aired on Newstalk, Ireland)
RADIO: To Stay or to Go - Pt. 3 May 2007
[10'25] 1995 is a key year in recent Irish history. It s the year that Ireland ceased to be a nation of emigrants.
In the U.S., September 11, 2001, the date
IN THE U.S., the date of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center is also a key date. It marks when the U.S. government began to tighten its grip on illegal immigrants in the country.
In the final part of this series, Don Duncan reports how these dates have profoundly reshaped the Irish-American community here. They mark, some say, the beginning of the end of the Irish in America.
