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BBC Arabic debates with audiences in Jordan, Kuwait and Sudan
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BBC Arabic continues to use its multi-media platforms to engage audiences in
conversations across the Middle East and North Africa with a series of debates
discussing issues important to people's lives in Jordan, Kuwait and Sudan.
As part of a season of programmes exploring workers' rights, BBC Arabic will
broadcast live from Kuwait on Wednesday 15 November 2006 and from Jordan on Wednesday 29
November at 1500 GMT.
The programmes involve studio audiences as well as BBC
Arabic listeners who will call in from around the world.
They will focus on
issues around migrant and domestic workers and the events will be broadcast on
national television in Kuwait and Jordan.
The service's website, bbcarabic.com, will feature video diaries taking an inside
look at the lives of migrant and domestic workers.
The debates are part of a
BBC Arabic and BBC World Service Trust initiative which is supported, in part, by
the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
BBC Arabic will also meet with audiences in Sudan with its Sudan: Voices And
Views From Within roadshow.
The roadshow features three main topics - the
education of women, migration from the countryside to the city and development
and unemployment.
The first debate takes place in Khartoum on Monday 4
December before moving to Wad Medani on Wednesday 6 December and then Port
Sudan on Saturday 9 December.
The debates will broadcast through BBC Arabic
flagship programmes Talking Point and BBC Extra.
Arabic speakers across the
world will have access to a wide range of in-depth video and audio features
exploring the issues.
The debates follow BBC Arabic's successful five-week Your Future. Who Decides
It? interactive roadshow which met 270,000 young people in Egypt, Jordan,
Sudan, West Bank and Syria earlier this year.
Notes to Editors
BBC Arabic is the leading international radio news service in Arabic, and
bbcarabic.com is the leading Arabic online news site.
BBC Arabic broadcasts 24-hours a day, every day, with news on the hour, every hour.
BBC Arabic
broadcasts to the whole Arab world on short wave and through digital audio
channels on the principal satellites covering the Arab world.
In most of the
eastern Arab world, BBC broadcasts are heard on medium wave, and in key cities
the BBC is available on FM.
The award-winning website bbcarabic.com also
carries a live audio feed of BBC Arabic radio.
The BBC World Service Trust is the BBC's international development charity.
The trust uses media and communications to reduce poverty and promote human
rights, thereby enabling people to build better lives.
Its website is bbcworldservicetrust.org.
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