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A few weeks ago, Foreign Policy launched a podcast about the war in Syria and specifically about young people who have become displaced over the past decade. We featured one of the episodes on Playlist—it’s called Syria’s Lost Generation. 

We wanted to give you a chance to hear all six episodes, so we’re inserting the rest of them here in our feed as a bonus.

And we'll be back soon with another episode of Foreign Policy Playlist.

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This week, Foreign Policy Playlist features Al Jazeera’s Hindsight, a podcast that takes you into the minds of some of history’s most famous and infamous characters.

One of Hindsight’s recent episodes is told from the perspective of Saddam Hussein as he navigates his way up the ladder in Iraq’s government. Al Jazeera’s executive producer Joanne Melo De Frias talks to us about how producers wrote the script, channeling the most intimate thoughts of Iraq’s former president.

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This week we recommend Rough Translation, a podcast series from NPR that follows familiar conversations into unfamiliar territory.

Our new host, FP’s Amy Mackinnon, spoke with Rough Translation host Gregory Warner about the episode “We Don’t Say That” which explores how race is talked about (or not talked about) in France.

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In this week's podcast we feature FP Studio's newest podcast Syria's Lost Generation, a podcast about young Syrians who expected to live normal lives but instead are uprooted by war and traumatized by displacement. The series was produced in partnership with World Vision International and the Syrian American Medical Society

This six-part podcast reported by journalist David Enders, a veteran of Syrian war coverage, and hosted by award-winning actor Liam Cunningham, puts faces to the millions of Syrians who have been devastated by a decade of war in the country and names to the young people who have known nothing else.

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This week, FP Playlist features Into Africa, a podcast from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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On this episode, Foreign Policy Playlist features a conversation with Negar Mortazavi, host of The Iran Podcast.

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Big infrastructure projects require big financing deals. But getting to that point often involves ingenuity and innovation. In this episode we explore new methods for financing infrastructure projects in Africa. Co-host Carol Pineau looks at how the Azura Edo power plant in Nigeria overcame a slew of obstacles to get a deal signed.

Later, Pineau hosts a roundtable featuring:

Alain Ebobisse, CEO of Africa50,

Acha Leke, Chairman of McKinsey's Africa Region

Ibukun Awosika, Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria

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This episode of Africa Forward highlights how Africans are finding new ways to fund energy projects and how this is creating transformational change on the continent. The episode begins with a story from the reporter Laura Rosbrow-Telem looking at the financing and construction of the Benban Solar Park in Egypt.

Later, co-host Carol Pineau leads a conversation on creating the best energy mix and how to properly fund large-scale projects. Her guests include:

Vera Songwe, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Hafez El-Salmawy, a professor of energy engineering at Zagazig University in Egypt

Ernest Moniz, a former U.S. Energy Secretary

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This episode looks at the promise and potential of infrastructure projects to facilitate transportation and trade on the continent. In the first half, reporter Laura Rosbrow-Telem takes listeners to the Gambia for a ride over the Senegambia Bridge, an important new gateway for Senegal and the Gambia for facilitating trade and commerce in Africa.

Then in the roundtable, co-host Carol Pineau leads a conversation on how investments in roads, bridges, ports, and airports can have a dramatic impact on trade. She also delves into how the newly established African Continental Free Trade Area, the world’s largest trading bloc by number of participants, will galvanize trade on the continent and help make African countries less reliant on the West for economic stimulation. Participants in this discussion include:

Benedict Oramah, President of the African Export-Import Bank

Juliet Anammah, chair of Jumia Nigeria and head of institutional affairs for Jumia Group

Allan Kilavuka, CEO of Kenya Airways

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Africa is not only building new roads and airports but also getting wired up for a vast expansion of digital services. Innovations in ICT are helping fill in the gaps when it comes to things like banking and education and is the engine behind creative new businesses throughout Africa. This episode features stories from the tech campus Seme City in Benin, coders like Betelhem Dessie, and startups like poa! Internet.

In the second half of the how, co-host Carol Pineau leads a roundtable discussion with:

Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT and Innovation in Rwanda,

Brian Herlihy, founder of SEACOM,

Omosalewa Adeyemi, Global Head of Expansion and Partnerships at Flutterwave. 

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