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True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives

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Outlook: Outlook Weekend: Pick of the Week

David Lindo, Maamoun Abdulkarim and Greg Long

14/06/2015

Outlook Weekend: Pick of the Week

BBC World Service - Outlook, Outlook Weekend: Pick of the Week

Urban birding, protecting Syria's antiquities, big wave surfer who survived a wipeout

Urban birding, protecting Syria's antiquities, surfer who survived a wipe-out, albino model, guarding the internet, Peruvian 'retablo' craftsman, Ethiopian musician Meklit.

Ma'amoun Abdul-karim is the director of antiquities in Syria. He describes the struggle to protect the country's world class archaeological artefacts from looters.

David Lindo is a British urban-birder whose passion for bird-watching in cities has led him from London to Addis Ababa. 

Claudio Jimenez Quispe is a Peruvian retablo artist. He makes small wooden boxes containing tiny figures, which depict all sorts of scenes, from the religious, to folk stories. 

Anne-Marie Eklund-Lowinder is a computer security expert from Sweden and one of the 14 people in the world who holds a key to the internet. These keys control a system which ensures the security of around half of all web pages.  

South African Thando Hopa is a full-time lawyer and catwalk model. As a child she suffered prejudice because of her albinism, a condition that gives her white skin and blonde hair. She is hoping to fight the prejudice that still sees people with albinism persecuted and discriminated against.

Meklit is an Ethiopian-American musician who blends the two cultures in her music. She uses jazz, folk and East African rhythms.

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