Category: Explorer’s Window

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 […]

Tue 29 October 2019: Child victims of abuse by a Catholic priest call on New York City’s most influential cleric to remove him from ministry. In a series of exclusive interviews with Fault Lines, several men across New York City come forward with painful memories of abuse by a Catholic priest. They say that Father John […]

Tell the World: The Silent Plight of China’s Uighurs How mass detention camps and heavy surveillance in Xinjiang are affecting Uighurs not just in China but also abroad. Filmmaker: Sophie McNeill Most members of the Australian Uighur community are missing someone. They all say they have a family member detained, imprisoned or trapped in what the Chinese […]

A Muslim schoolgirl fights prejudice and patriarchy with every punch. Muslim schoolgirl Fareeha dreams of becoming a martial arts champion. Her school started teaching the Chinese martial art, wushu, because of growing concerns about violence against women in India.  Now, after qualifying for an Indian national tournament, Fareeha has her goal firmly in sight. But her […]