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This week we recorded bloggers throughout the Middle East. Unfortunately we often find that there isn’t enough time to fit all of these voices into an hour of radio. The following stories didn’t make it on the air but they are certainly worth listening to.
Lebanese blogger, The Perpetual Refugee, is only in his 30′s but he already considers himself a member of the older generation. We interviewed him for our show, The Generational Divide in the Middle East
Click to Listen to Blog Story (776 KB MP3)
We interviewed Allison Kaplan Sommer, Associate Editor, Israel21c and blogger for, An Unsealed Room and Isreality, for our show, Israel and Lebanon: Refuge in Fiction. We asked Allison to give us a taste of everyday life from her home in a suburn outside of Tel Aviv. We wondered if it was possible for her to do this without mentioning the war.
Click to Listen to Blog Story (1.5 MB MP3)
And huge apologies to writer and blogger Ali Al Saeed. You heard him on The Generational Divide in the Middle East, but we mistakenly identified him as The Perpetual Refugee. Ali Al Saeed is 28 and among the emerging generation in Bahrain that is embracing the western world. He is the first Bahranian author to write a novel in English.
