Category: Explorer’s Window

Mon 10 February 2020: Indian TV anchors are in attack mode against critics of the ruling party. Plus, blackface in the Arab world. On The Listening Post this week: “Terrorists”, “anti-nationals” – Indian TV anchors are in attack mode against critics of the ruling party. Plus the history of blackface in the Arab world. Are the loudest […]

Wed 05 February 2020: Imagine trying to make sense of the universe before telescopes were even invented. Jim al-Khalili reveals how scholars from the Islamic world played a crucial role in astronomy and navigation, influencing later astronomers in the renaissance. In this episode of Science in the Golden Age, we examine ancient maps dating back […]

Mon 03 February 2020: How drone technology became a multibillion-dollar industry. Plus, Putin’s economic record and Xi’s biggest test yet. Unmanned ariel vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have come a long way since their introduction in the first Gulf War in 1991. At the time, they were used just for surveillance and intelligence gathering. A decade […]

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 […]