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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition 25/08/2012

Weekend Edition 25/08/2012

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition 25/08/2012

Pascale Harter presents insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents around the world

The pick of this week's global dispatches, presented by Pascale Harter. With stories on Syrian Kurds, multifaith Sierra Leone, French rioters, Malaysian orang utans and the pitfalls of learning Farsi.

Pascale Harter introduces the pick of this week's dispatches from correspondents, reporters and writers around the world. In this edition:

ORLA GUERIN asks some of Syria's Kurds what they'd like to see on a post-Assad map of the Middle East;

TAMASIN FORD finds that many people in Sierra Leone have no problem being both Christian AND Muslim - simultaneously;

CHRISTIAN FRASIER explores the ills and the hopes of the 'no go' suburbs outside many cities in France; 

JENNIFER PAK explains why orang utans and palm oil don't mix in Malaysia;

and DANIEL NASAW recounts the pitfalls (and the pratfalls) of being an American trying to learn Farsi, the main language of Iran.

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