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Revolutionary Road Trip
5:00 am
Tue June 12, 2012

After Libya's War, Acts Of Vengeance

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A destroyed apartment building in Tawargha, south of the Libyan coastal city of Misrata. Rebels from Misrata destroyed Tawargha, accusing residents of supporting Moammar Gadhafi and committing atrocities.
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A destroyed building in Misrata holds the damaged remains of tanks that belonged to Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
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A destroyed home in Tawargha, south of Misrata. Residents were driven out and have not returned, fearing they will be killed. Graffiti in the town talks of "slaves," a reference to the black-skinned people of Tawargha. The town has been unofficially renamed New Misrata.
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A destroyed apartment building in Tawargha, south of the Libyan coastal city of Misrata. Rebels from Misrata destroyed Tawargha, accusing residents of supporting Moammar Gadhafi and committing atrocities.
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A man fishes in the Mediterranean outside a Tawargha refugee camp on the outskirts Tripoli. The people of Tawargha fled their ancestral homeland after the revolution when people from the city of Misrata accused them of collaborating with Gadhafi.
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A diorama at the Tawargha refugee camp that represents their old home.
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A Tawargha man - who declined to give his name or show his face for fear of reprisals - shows his disfigured legs. He says after his friends were shot dead, a man from Misrata intervened to save his life. Instead of killing him, he says, a militia from Misrata then broke his legs with a rifle butt.
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An English class in the Tawargha refugee camp. Students here are studying a new history textbook that makes almost no mention of Gadhafi.
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Houda Mohammed Belaid says that when she and her sister joined a protest march against their status as refugees from Tawargha, gunman attacked the protest march and shot them.

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The view out a broken window in the Tawargha refugee camp near Tripoli.
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An English class in the Tawargha refugee camp. Students here are studying a new history textbook that makes almost no mention of Gadhafi.
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A destroyed home in Tawargha, south of Misrata. Residents have not returned home for fear of death. Misratans have burned every single home in the area and destroyed the town's infrastructure.
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Originally published on Fri June 15, 2012 12:05 pm

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is taking a Revolutionary Road Trip across North Africa to see how the countries that staged revolutions last year are remaking themselves. Steve and his team are traveling some 2,000 miles from Tunisia's ancient city of Carthage, across the deserts of Libya and on to Egypt's megacity of Cairo. Near the Libyan coastal city of Misrata, he looks at violence that took place after the revolution.

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Revolutionary Road Trip
4:44 am
Mon June 11, 2012

Looking To The Future, Libya Erases Part Of Its Past

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A map of the oil pipelines at Al-Sidrah. The man pointing to the map is Abujala Zenati, who had retired as manager of the operation. He says he returned to work after the revolution to help support the new Libya.
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A map of the oil pipelines at Al-Sidrah. The man pointing to the map is Abujala Zenati, who had retired as manager of the operation. He says he returned to work after the revolution to help support the new Libya.
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Abujala Zenati in the central control room at the oil production facility at Al-Sidrah.
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An oil tanker sits off the coast of Al-Sidra, filling its tanks with oil from an undersea pipeline. Oil production crashed during last year's fighting, but is now approaching pre-revolutionary levels.
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A display in Libya's national museum used to read "The Museums of the Jamahiriya." Jamihiriya was a word Ghaddfi invented to describe the governing system of Libya. The word has been covered with stickers of the revolutionary flag.
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Libya's deputy oil minister, Omar Shakmak, says he secretly supported the opposition in Libya while working in the oil industry for decades.
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A view of the Leptis Magna amphitheater. Leptis Magna is a massive Roman ruin on the Libyan coast between Tripoli and Misrata.
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Originally published on Tue June 12, 2012 11:11 am

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is taking a Revolutionary Road Trip across North Africa to see how the countries that staged revolutions last year are remaking themselves. Steve and his team are traveling some 2,000 miles from Tunisia's ancient city of Carthage, across the deserts of Libya and on to Egypt's megacity of Cairo. In his first story from Libya, he looks at what has changed in a country that was dominated for decades by one man.

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Monkey See
4:36 am
Mon June 11, 2012

Picturing Tunisia: A Favorite Hollywood Location Through A Different Lens

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A scene from the Kairouan medina - where some of the street scenes from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark were filmed.
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Kairouan is home to scores of places of worship, including the Great Mosque, a building of sandy bricks with a square minaret and a design that is said to have influenced mosques all through the region. Visitors and tourists are silhouetted inside the ancient building.
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The courtyard of a house in the old section of Kairouan.
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A scene from the medina in Tunis.
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A scene from the Kairouan medina - where some of the street scenes from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark were filmed.
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Many of the old city walls are still standing.
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People walk through the narrow streets of Tunis' medina, or marketplace.
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The real Kairouan is a Muslim holy city, was an early foothold for Islam as it spread across North Africa. Most of the door knockers in old-town Kairouan are in the shape of a hand. It symbolizes the hand of the prophet Mohamed's daughter Fatma.
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Originally published on Mon June 11, 2012 6:48 am

Here's a movie scene burned into my brain: Harrison Ford, playing Indiana Jones, is on a chase through the streets of Cairo. It's in the original movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, which I saw as a kid. Today I couldn't tell you who was chasing whom or why, but I remember the climax. Jones is pushing through a mass of people when the crowd abruptly parts. He's confronted by a swordsman, who flips his giant scimitar around both artfully and menacingly.

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Revolutionary Road Trip
2:54 am
Wed June 6, 2012

Once Tolerated, Alcohol Now Creates Rift In Tunisia

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Children ride the train, hopping in and out of the open doors, from Tunis to the suburb of Sidi Bou Said.
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Buckshot pockmarks the outside of a mosque in Sidi Bouzid, where there have been confrontations over the presence of liquor stores.
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A monument to Mohammed Bouazizi, a fruit seller who touched off the Arab Spring by setting himself on fire in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. The graffiti reads, "For Those Who Yearn To Be free."
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A vendor sells fruit in the same market area where Bouazizi worked.
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Jacob LaLoush poses beside bougainvillea flowers outside his kosher restaurant in Sidi Bou Said, outside Tunis. He says his is the only kosher restaurant left in all of Tunis.
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A boy peers out a bus window in the Tunis suburb of Sidi Bou Said.
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Political activist Ramy Sghayer says he favors a secular society for Tunisia.
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LaLoush's mother, Lily, and chef Hadia Ben Mahmoud prepare dinner in the family restaurant, Mamy Lily.
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The wall surrounding the Celtia brewery is about 12-feet high and topped with razor wire and broken beer bottles. The brewery is owned by the state, and the government is currently controlled by the Islamist party Ennahda.
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A vendor sells fruit at the Sidi Bouzid market where fruit-seller Mohammed Bouazizi worked. Bouazizi's self-immolation in front of the governor's offices nearby was the catalyst for protests all over the county.
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Originally published on Thu June 14, 2012 12:07 pm

Over the next couple weeks, NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is taking a Revolutionary Road Trip across North Africa to see how the countries that staged revolutions last year are remaking themselves as they write new social rules, rebuild their economies and establish new political systems. Steve and his team will be traveling some 2,000 miles from Tunisia's ancient city of Carthage, across the deserts of Libya and on to Egypt's megacity of Cairo. In this story, he looks at the friction that has developed over alcohol in Tunisia.

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Africa
3:00 am
Tue June 5, 2012

Tunisian Women Turn Revolution Into Opportunity

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Workers at a carpet-making business in the town of Kairouan are paid about $2.50 a day. Many carpet buyers are tourists, but the number of foreign visitors has dropped since the revolution.

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Women talk with a police officer in Tunis.
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Women in a range of styles pose for a picture near the entrance to the old medina, or marketplace, in Tunis.
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Lawyer Ferida Lebidi heads the commission writing the "rights and liberties" section of Tunisia's new constitution. She belongs to an Islamist party that is considered moderate, though she advocates capital punishment for adultery.
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A woman walks through the marketplace in Kairouan, where some street scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark were filmed.
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Tunisian women walk through the narrow streets of Tunis' medina, or marketplace. Compared to women in other Arab countries, Tunisian women have had access to education and job opportunities for decades.
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Originally published on Wed June 6, 2012 1:42 am

Over the next couple weeks, NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is taking a Revolutionary Road Trip across North Africa to see how the countries that staged revolutions last year are remaking themselves as they write new social rules, rebuild their economies and establish new political systems. Steve and his team will be traveling some 2,000 miles from Tunisia's ancient city of Carthage, across the deserts of Libya and on to Egypt's megacity of Cairo. In this story, he looks at the changing role of women in the new Tunisia.

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Middle East
4:48 am
Thu May 24, 2012

Iran Nuclear Talks Described As Long, Hard

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Originally published on Thu May 24, 2012 6:40 am

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers resumed this morning in Baghdad. The United States and its allies are pressing Iran to freeze its production of highly enriched uranium, but are refusing to offer the kind of easing of economic sanctions that Iran is seeking as a concession. These talks are described as long and hard, and NPR's Peter Kenyon is covering them in Baghdad, Iraq. Hi, Peter.

PETER KENYON, BYLINE: Morning, Steve.

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Middle East
4:32 am
Wed May 23, 2012

Voting Opens In Egypt's Historical Presidential Election

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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 5:22 am

Egyptian voters go to the polls over the next two days to vote for president. There are 12 candidates but polls suggest the race is down to four men: two Islamists and two former officials in the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak. If no one wins at least 50 percent of the vote in the first round, a runoff will be held next month.

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4:45 am
Tue May 15, 2012

Mexican Police Investigate Latest Atrocity

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Originally published on Tue May 15, 2012 9:51 am

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DAVID GREENE, HOST:

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning, I'm David Greene.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

And I'm Steve Inskeep.

A news item last weekend reminded us that we live in a largely peaceful country right next door to a country at war with itself. In northern Mexico on Sunday, authorities found the bodies of 49 people. They were left on a highway outside Monterrey about 75 miles from Texas. They are described as victims of the Zetas crime syndicate. And the dumping of bodies like this is not unusual in Mexico.

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Sports
6:44 am
Mon May 14, 2012

NHL Action Moves On To Conference Finals

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The conference finals are underway in the National Hockey League playoffs. In the East, the New York Rangers will face the New Jersey Devils Monday. In the West, the Los Angeles Kings have won Game 1 — beating the Phoenix Coyotes 4-2.

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4:47 am
Mon May 14, 2012

An Update On Syrian Violence

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Originally published on Mon May 14, 2012 6:44 am

Over the weekend, Syrian troops continued their brutal campaign against those who oppose the regime of President Bashar Assad. And a questionable video has been released by a group claiming responsibility for massive explosions that shook Syria's capital last week.

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