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May 2024
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We made this podcast in 2023. Why did we...

A Context podcast from the Thomson Reuters Foundation
About this episode
We started producing this podcast in August 2023. Then came the seismic events that have shaken the Middle East since October 7th, and we thought we would hold back our launch until things calmed down a bit. Obviously, things haven’t calmed down. But we’ve released our podcast because the people we met and interviewed are still there, and their stories are s ... Show More
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