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A year of protests in Algeria

Every Friday, tens of thousands of Algerians pour on to the streets of their hometowns to protest. They protest against the government, which they see as corrupt. They protest for their future, which they see as in peril. They protest a political system they say doesn’t represent them. The scale and size of the protests vary from week to week, but without fail, they happen and they’ve been happening for exactly one year. On this edition of Beyond the Headlines, host Willy Lowry delves into Algeria’s year of change. One in which the country’s longtime president, Abdulaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign and a leaderless protest movement morphed into a serious player in Algeria’s politics.

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Stories from the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition

Stories from the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition

On August 15, 1947, British Viceroy Lord Louis Mountbatten formally announced India's independence from British colonial rule. The Indian subcontinent was partitioned into two countries – India and Pa...

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The future of farming in the UAE

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Lebanon’s silent crisis

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For nearly three years, Lebanon has been steadily collapsing under the weight of a financial crisis that is one of the worst in the modern world. But what is life like for those who have to live throu...

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Tunisia’s contested referendum

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For more than a decade, Tunisia was seen as the poster child for democratic transition after the Arab Uprisings of 2011. By 2014 the country had had two free and fair elections and ratified a new cons...

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How will President Biden’s visit to the Middle East be remembered?

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Joe Biden has made his first visit to the Middle East as US president. He might be no stranger to the region, having visited dozens of times as vice president and senator for Delaware, but this is the...

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Five years after ISIS, when will Mosul be rebuilt?

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Five years have passed since Iraq liberated Mosul from ISIS in a bloody, street to street battle that left 11,000 civilians dead and much of the northern city in ruins.  Millions fled the brutal three...

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On June 29, world leaders gathered in Madrid to discuss the future direction of the The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.    On this week’s Beyond the Headlines, host Mina Aldroubi speaks to Michael...

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