Category: Explorer’s Window

Sat 25 January 2020: New shocking revelations are uncovered in this short documentary on war crimes committed by senior Assad regime figures, as we speak with prosecutors and human rights activists who gained access to top secret regime documents and a military defector whose collection of tens of thousands of photographs of victims is helping […]

Thu 23 January 2020: The Crusades: An Arab Perspective is a four-part documentary series telling the dramatic story of the Crusades seen through Arab eyes, from the seizing of Jerusalem under Pope Urban II in 1099, to its recapture by Salah ad-Din (also known as Saladin), Richard the Lionheart’s efforts to regain the city, and the […]

Sun 12 January 2020: A portrait of two different voices whose demands for black equality gave rise to gains in American civil rights. A half-century after their deaths, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X remain two of the world’s most revered political activists. They were both respected leaders of the American Civil Rights movement, struggling […]

Sun 05 January 2020: From Xinjiang, China to Douma, Syria – how challenging stories are being reported using tools of open-source journalism. A special edition of The Listening Post on a new kind of reporting: open-source journalism. Citizen journalism allows anybody with a mobile phone to document current events and produce content that is now routinely used […]

Thu 02 January 2020: How the same devices we happily carry in our pockets are being weaponised against us. It is the age-old debate that accompanies all new advancements in technology: We love to adopt the latest tech, and we do not think too much about the consequences for our safety and privacy. Facial recognition is great […]

Tue 26 November 2019: Insight into the harrowing experiences faced by Myanmar’s Rohingya at the hands of the military and Buddhist factions. A film by Shahida Tulaganova “After killing all the men, they asked: ‘Who are you?’ We replied: ‘We are Rohingya, Rohingya’. They said: ‘This is not your country, you can’t live here,” recalls […]

Science in a Golden Age – Al-Razi, Ibn Sina and the Canon of Medicine Mon 04 November 2019: We explore the links between medical research in the Golden Age of Science and the modern practice of medicine today. Standing in one of the largest neo-natal units in the world at Hamad Hospital in Qatar, you […]

Libya Renditions: The CIA, MI6 and Gaddafi’s Secret Prisons Sun 03 November 2019: How British and US secret services collaborated with the former Libyan regime to detain and torture dissidents. In 2004, Sami al-Saadi and Abdel-Hakeem Belhaj – two Libyan opponents of the Muammar Gaddafi regime – were abducted en route to the United Kingdom, then repatriated to Libya where […]