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'BBC Arabic' debates with audiences in Jordan, Kuwait and Sudan.


... BBC Arabic BBC Arabic was launched on 1938 and is the first foreign language service of the BBC World Service. The programs of BBC Arabic are broadcasted on the mediumwave and shortwave all over the middle east and north Africa. FM broadcasting is available for some areas.  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 and Sudan.As part of a season of programs exploring workers' rights, BBC Arabic had already broadcasted live from Kuwait on November 15 and is scheduled to broadcast from Jordan on Wednesday November 29, at 1500 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) See UTC.

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 (5 p.m. Amman local time).- The-programs 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 Jordan's national television.-- The service's website bbcarabic.com will feature video diaries Video Diaries was a BBC television programme produced by the Community Programme Unit. The series of programmes was created in 1990 by producer Jeremy Gibson. The programme's production team offered members of the public basic video training and ongoing support.  taking an inside look at the lives of migrant and domestic workers.- The debates are part of a BBC Arabic and BBC World Service
For the BBC television network, see BBC World.


The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world through multiple technologies.
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).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 December 4 before moving on to Wad Medani on Wednesday December 6 and then Port Sudan on Saturday December 9. The debates will broadcast through BBC Arabic flagship programs Talking Point and BBC BBC
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Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927.
 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 5-week Your futureC* who decides it? interactive road show which met 270,000 young people in Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, West Bank and Syria earlier this year. A*BBC'BBC Arabic' debates with audiences in Jordan, Kuwait and Sudan

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Publication:The Star (Amman, Jordan)
Date:Nov 27, 2006
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