Palestinian Artist Gives Hope to Community Under o=Occupation
From: Deutsche Welle
Series: Generation Change
Length: 05:16
Eid is a young man living in one of the poorest areas of the occupied West Bank. The villagers live in rickety concrete dwellings with corrugated iron roofs. Almost all the homes in his part of the village have demolition orders on them. The bulldozers could come at any time. And yet Eid (pronounced EED) still dares to dream. Kate Laycock prepared this profile for Radio Deutsche Welle's "Generation Change" series.
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Eid is a young man living in one of the poorest areas of the occupied West Bank. The villagers live in rickety concrete dwellings with corrugated iron roofs. Almost all the homes in his part of the village have demolition orders on them. The bulldozers could come at any time. And yet Eid (pronounced EED) still dares to dream. Kate Laycock prepared this profile for Radio Deutsche Welle's "Generation Change" series.
Timing and Cues
Length; 5:15
Opens with :12 ambience
Outag: Kate Laycock, Deutsche Welle Radio
Intro and Outro
INTRO:Eid is a young man living in one of the poorest areas of the occupied West Bank. The villagers live in rickety concrete dwellings with corrugated iron roofs. Almost all the homes in his part of the village have demolition orders on them. The bulldozers could come at any time. And yet Eid (pronounced EED) still dares to dream. Kate Laycock prepared this profile for Radio Deutsche Welle's "Generation Change" series.
OUTRO:For more on Deutsche Welle's "Generation Change" series go to http://rss.dw-world.de/xml/podcast_en_pulse_series
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