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		<title>No Children of Ours: Rochdale and conveyor belt grooming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[15 years ago the renowned filmmaker Peter Kosminsky made No Child of Mine, a controversial drama about a teenage girl in care who&#8217;d ended up being passed around by men for sex. The phenomenon was called &#8220;conveyor belt grooming&#8221;. The &#8230; <a href="http://www.samiraahmed.co.uk/?p=2152">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mea culpa: But only after making the money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Mervyn King&#8217;s recent admisson that he should have been &#8220;shouting from the rooftops&#8221; about the dangers of the banking system before the 2008 crash seems to add to my theory, written for The Big Issue about the number of &#8230; <a href="http://www.samiraahmed.co.uk/?p=2095">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Halal wine and other spiritual dilemmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 21:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a fabulous Moroccan cafe called La Provence round the corner from my old office, on Grays Inn Road in London, where my Dad would come and take me for lunch sometimes. My Dad&#8217;s an observant Muslim and would tend &#8230; <a href="http://www.samiraahmed.co.uk/?p=2124">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Fantasies of Youth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every generation has its teen moral panic exploitation movie. In the 1930s it was Reefer Madness. In the 50s it was Beat Girl (the evils of Soho coffee bars and bongos). For my generation it was 1982’s Mazes and Monsters &#8230; <a href="http://www.samiraahmed.co.uk/?p=2111">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Smashing Time: Murray Melvin on busting taboos in the 60s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the third of my One to Ones for Radio 4 I wanted a Missing Angle on the golden age of British theatre and cinema &#8212; from the late 50s to the early 70s. You can listen to it here. &#8230; <a href="http://www.samiraahmed.co.uk/?p=2019">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can we laugh about this? Race on film</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent an hour with the Film Club charity in Battersea Park School in South London today,(I&#8217;m a trustee) discussing the treatment of race and racism on film. It was Anti-Racism Day, apparently. I chose clips from a sample of &#8230; <a href="http://www.samiraahmed.co.uk/?p=2001">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Missing Angle on the Arab Spring: The Soviet Era dissident&#8217;s tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met renowned Polish Jewish journalist, Konstanty Gebert, from Gazeta Wyborcza at an EU conference for Arab journalists last year. His family had mostly died in the Warsaw Ghetto, his mother survived to take up arms with the Communists and &#8230; <a href="http://www.samiraahmed.co.uk/?p=1983">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Go There, Lady</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote to journalist and future doctor Lucy Mathen as a child when she presented Newsround. More than 30 years later we met. I wrote a feature about it for The Guardian. And as a result of learning about how &#8230; <a href="http://www.samiraahmed.co.uk/?p=1931">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Something Warhammer This Way Comes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I discovered the world of Warhammer and Warhammer 40K through my son. Warhammer 40K was launched just over 25 years ago. To mark the anniversary I have written a feature about its world of table top fantasy wargaming for the BBC &#8230; <a href="http://www.samiraahmed.co.uk/?p=1870">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Women and the Arab Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some good links on the speakers at the Women Of The World (WOW) Arab Spring panel discussion 3pm Saturday March 10th it the Purcell Room in London&#8217;s Southbank Centre. I&#8217;m chairing.  Whether you are coming or not, the &#8230; <a href="http://www.samiraahmed.co.uk/?p=1904">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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