Iranian Vocalist Mamak Khadem Breaks Gender Rules With Music

Iranian vocalist Mamak Khadem is breaking gender rules in Persian music. Khadem has released a new album titled “A Window to Color”.

PRI’s The World: 10/04/2011(Somalia, Italy)

Latest edition of The World.

What Arab Bloggers Make of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protest

Arab bloggers see a comparison between their protests and what’s happening on Wall Street.

Caught in the Middle: Greeks in Germany

Young Greeks living in Germany keep hearing complaints from Germans about Greeks being lazy and they’re hearing complaints from home about Germans demands for debt repayment.

MBA Program Launched in Cuba

The program sponsored by the Catholic church aims to teach Cuban students how to start and market their own businesses in the new Cuban economy.

Denmark’s New ‘Fat’ Tax

Denmark’s new government is pushing through a nationwide fat and sugar tax.

An Inuit Dialect, a Grammar for Cities, and Zappa’s Lyrics

Podcast: Almost no place on earth is remote any more, as a linguist discovers when he spends a year in an Inuit village.

Forum: Promoting Happiness as Public Policy

Measuring Happiness in Victoria, British Columbia

A Canadian epidemiologist is helping his own community to track the happiness of its people.

Music Heard on Air for October 3, 2011

Tunes spun on The World between our reports for October 3, 2011. Artists featured are: Mory Kante, Moriba Koita, David Hewitt, Lamine Konte, AfroCubism, Issa Bagayogo.

Music Heard on Air for October 3, 2011

Tunes spun on The World between our reports for October 3, 2011. Artists featured are: Mory Kante, Moriba Koita, David Hewitt, Lamine Konte, AfroCubism, Issa Bagayogo.

Haqqani Network Leader Makes Statement to BBC

Jonathan Marcus, the BBC’s Defense and Diplomatic Correspondent, discusses comments made in an exclusive interview by Sirajuddin Haqqani,

Children Surviving in War Torn Afghanistan

There are millions of children growing up in Afghanistan who have known nothing but war and violence.

Late Nobel Medicine Laureate Ralph Steinman Will Keep Award

Canadian scientist Ralph Steinman will keep his Nobel prize for medicine, the Nobel Foundation has said, after his death on Friday threw it into doubt.

Studying an Inuit Language Threatened with Extinction

We’re heading north for the Geo Quiz this time. Way north, to one of the globe’s northernmost inhabited settlements.