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- Doomed to stay: The dying villages of Mexico’s Lake Cuitzeo
As Mexico’s reservoirs run dry, the fishermen, farmers and ranchers stuck on the drying lake beds wonder how they will survive.
Written by Arnaud De Decker and Jules Emile
Read by Mike Paul
20 min - Vanished: The Plight of three Ethiopian DomesticWorkers in Lebanon
Meseret started working for a Lebanese family as a domestic worker soon after arriving from Ethiopia in 2011. A little over a year later, she stopped calling her family. Her story of abuse would eventually surface -- along with those from other migrants who'd hoped to seek a better life abroad.
Written by Zecharias Zelalem.
Read by Mapendo Munthali.
25 min - Anwar Ditta: The Mother Who Took on the British Government and Won.
Anwar Ditta’s heart-breaking recollections from the 1970s and '80s, expose a very dark moment in British society.
Her story came to define an era of Asian anti-racist resistance.
Written by Bryan Knight.
Read by Mike Paul.
26 min - Morna: Cape Verde's Music of Displacement and Return
The longing for home or for those who've left in search of a better life is summed up in one word. Sodade. Cape Verde and its sons and daughters of singers, poets and musicians capture it all in mornas.
AJ Long Reads explores this musical practice as Cape Verdeans observe independence from Portugal on July 5th,Written by-Beatriz Ramalho da Silva.
Read by Jo de Frias.
31 min - Tales from a Crematorium
Cremation on a funeral pyre made from wood has long been part of India's elaborate ritual to honour the dead, but not during the second deadly wave of Covid.
"Funerals have been reduced to just getting rid of the dead body because people are very scared of contracting the virus,”
In Tales from an Indian Crematorium ,we hear about one of the hardest jobs going.
Written by Saurabh Sharma.
Read by me Mohita Namjoshi.
16 min - ‘I have sacrificed a lot’: Growing Up Queer in India
For LGBTQ+ Pride Month, Queer Indians who battle family expectations and social pressures to live their authentic lives, share their stories.
Written by Payal Dhar.
Read by Iraaj Majumdar.
17 min - 'Betrayed’: The Afghan Interpreters Abandoned by the US
This September will mark 20 years since the start of the US war in Afghanistan. After Al-Qaeda members hijacked four commercial airliners then President George W. Bush vowed to win the war against terrorism. Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan were the targets.
In the years that followed, hundreds of Afghans risked their lives to assist the US military with interpreting and other services. They’ve since found themselves abandoned as the US pulls out of Afghanistan.
Written by Sayed Jalal Shajjan.Read by me Ben Mitchell.
26 min - The Afghan Fathers Braving Beatings to Reach Family in Croatia
In northwest Bosnia, stranded Afghan fathers are desperate to reunite with their families over the border in Croatia – and risk their own safety in order to do so.
Written by Lucy Papachristou.
Read by Ben Mitchell.21 min - ‘I smell it, taste it, feel its heaviness’: Life in Delhi’s Dust
In claustrophobic north India, where generations have grown up breathing in deadly air, dust is a normal part of everyday life.
Written by Anandi Mishra.
Read by Mohita Namjoshi.
22 min - Sneakers, California Sun and My Mother’s Other Daughter
"They looked at my ocean, lived my dream. My mother’s other daughter was the me that I wished I could be."
Personal essay written by Nicole Johnson. Read by Lisa Brandt.
12 min
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