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Fighting intensifies in Pakistan's Swat region, blind photographers, and the art of the rebuke.

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Political economist Deepak Lal on the origins of capitalism; writer & stand-up comedian AL Kennedy on the importance of words; Tatar poet Ravil Bukharaev on the power of minority nations. Show more

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Slavery in Mauritania has deep roots, stretching back 800 years. In 2007 the practice was finally criminalised, but is the master/slave relationship still just as entrenched? Show more

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