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Boston Calling: Confronting a Sexual Harasser

16/11/2013

Confronting a Sexual Harasser

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An American reporter living in Egypt turns her microphone on a man who calls her 'Sugar'

An American reporter living in Egypt turns her microphone on a man who calls her 'Sugar'.

An American reporter living in Egypt says that after being sexually harassed on the streets of Cairo day after day, she’d had enough. Find out what happens when she asks one of her harassers for an interview.  Also, Marvel Comics unveils its first Muslim superhero – the Pakistani-American Miss Marvel. A tech support worker in the Philippines who answers help requests from abroad finds something to laugh about in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan. A young, Asian-American woman embraces the cultural tradition of multi-generational living. And, tragedy strikes the members of an Iranian rock band in New York City.

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