00:00:00
/
00:00:00
 
Press Play to start audio

Connect with us

June 11, 2007

Ahmed's Diary

From the Series: 
Ahmed’s Diary
Share

Last week, Ahmed talked about a neighbor of his who was killed. This week, another neighbor died. This neighbor was neither Sunni nor Shia, but Christian. He was killed because he told authorities about an explosive he saw planted. Ahmed continues to wonders if his turn is soon.

Tagged with: 
Middle East
,
Iraq
and
War

You might also like…

Combat Ready: Training Journalists

A friend of Chris Hondros, the photographer who died covering Libya’s uprising last year, talks about handling medical emergencies on the field.

Share

Combatants For Peace

By the time Palestinian Bassam Aramin was 17, he was in jail for planning an attack on Israeli soldiers. At the same time, Yonatan Shapira was an elite pilot in the Israeli Air Force. But somehow each man came to understand the view of the other and they began meeting secretly to find a better way. Also on the show: an inadvertant Freedom Rider.

Share

Goodbye Comrades

Mike Heaney fought in the Vietnam War. And like Alfred Klinger, he wondered for many years what it would be like to go back.

Share

Syria: The Conflict Comes Home

Issa Touma, a photographer in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo, has had his apartment ransacked by a local militia.

Share

Symphony Of Terror

As violence continues in Syria, guest host Alex Chadwick speaks with former Syrian prisoner Bara Sarraj. He was in the infamous Tadmor prison for nine years and was tortured on a regular basis. He tells of getting picked up and not charged, then beaten and locked in prison. He gives details of daily life and the “symphony of terror” he heard every day.

Share

Telling The Untellable

Alicia Partnoy, who was held in a secret prison in Argentina, speaks to Sean Cole about the place called the Little School. The naming of the Buenos Aires cardinal as pope has brought up memories of the country’s Dirty War, during which thousands of citizens were kidnapped and killed.

Share

The Town of Trochenbrod

A son searches Ukraine for the town his Jewish father fled in 1942 and finds survivors.

Share

Memories Of '48

Two men who were present at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict of 1948 were Mohammed Daoud and Izzie Weinzweig. Mohammed grew up in a small Palestinian village, and was a young father when Israel declared independence. Izzie was born into a family of active Zionists in Toronto.

Share

Studying Darfur

The problem that the United Nations peacekeepers face in Darfur is not a new one. A couple of years ago, the peacekeepers wore green berets instead of the UN blue berets -- they were with the African Union.  Al-banan was one of their interpreters and he documented what was happening, talked to the survivors and came face-to-face with the horrors of the genocide. Also in this show: A Voter's Drive

Share

Comfort Woman

When 16-year-old Ok Sun Kim was kidnapped from her home in Korea in 1938, she could not have dreamed she was heading into seven years of sexual enslavement. One of an estimated 50,000-200,000 so-called 'comfort women' who serviced the Japanese Army during World War II, Ms. Kim still bears the physical and emotional scars of accommodating 50-60 men a day.

Share

Daily Story Update

Get daily updates and special announcements about The Story.
 
Signup Now

Most Recent Stories

Where Are They Now?
Waving Man
Goodbye
The Opera Couple

Search all Stories

Produced by

WUNC North Carolina Public Radio 91.5 logo