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Palestinian-British Film Week in Gaza
Suheil Tarazi finds that the short films in the Palestinian-British film Week, highlight the complex issues that face people in this area of the world and yet still manage to entertain.
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Tags: film, Gaza, Palestinian territories
Category: Arts, Dispatches
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Juba Day School Military Science Class. Photo by Rosie Goldsmith
Tony Calderbank, Country Director South Sudan, blogs about the challenge of teaching a new country to read and write a foreign language, when their native tongue is rarely written down.
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Tags: South Sudan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tony Calderbank
Category: English & Education
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Photo: Damascus by Jan Smith, Creative Commons, Flickr
After having to leave Libya for Syria during the turmoil of 2011, Intissar Rajabany reflects on her experiences, the support she had from British Council colleagues and how it felt not knowing if, or when, she would be able to return home.
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Tags: Arab Spring, Libya, Middle East and North Africa, Syria
Category: Cultural Relations, Dispatches
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Winners from the Social Enterprise Challenge in Afghanistan
At British Council Afghanistan’s Social Enterprise Challenge, Paul Smith discovers that a country’s prosperity shouldn’t always be measured in economic terms, but rather by the vision and hope of its young people.
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Tags: Afghanistan, community, Kabul, Paul Smith
Category: Dispatches
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Lubna Punjwani training the teachers in Karachi
Sharmeen Peshimam from British Council Pakistan discovers that, in some areas, nothing comes close to working with people face-to-face when building cultural relations.
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Tags: Karachi, Pakistan, Sharmeen Peshimam, South Asia, training
Category: Cultural Relations, English & Education
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