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Too Old to be a Mum?

With no legal age limits on IVF treatment and biological boundaries being pushed ever further, how do we decide how old is just too old to be a new Mum?

Christmas Tales

In this three-part series, Fiona Phillips focuses on three of our most enduring and best-loved, festive icons; Father Christmas, Angels and Christmas Trees.

BOSNIA'S WAR BABIES

BBC World Service

Radovan Karadzic is on trial in the Hague, indicted for war crimes during the Bosnian conflict of the ‘90s. These crimes included the army’s systematic rape of 20,000 women and children, which continues to have repercussions in the form of stigma, poverty, sickness, shame, and - for those women who bore children AND kept them - the added burden of teenagers asking difficult questions about their identity.

SHARIAH TV SERIES 5 IN THE USA

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Channel 4

The fifth series of Channel 4’s Shariah TV comes from New York City – home to one of the most ethnically diverse Muslim populations in the world. Here, Muslims from over 80 countries across four continents have settled alongside immigrants from all parts of the globe. In a city still healing from the scar of 9/11 Shariah TV has assembled a cross-section of young Muslims to pose searching questions for a panel of eminent Islamic experts. Tazeen Ahmad chairs the discussions.

Programme 1: Pledging allegiance
C4 Mon 14 July 2008 at 12.10am
The first programme in the series asks: how can you be a Muslim in ‘The Land of the Great Satan’?
Programme 2: Shadow of 9/11
C4 Tue 15 July 2008 at 12.05am
American Muslims reflect on how the attack on the Twin Towers changed their lives forever and how they are coping with the aftermath.
Programme 3: Pluralism and interfaith dialogue
C4 Weds 16 July 2008 at 12.05am
With religion dividing the world, are interfaith initiatives the only hope we’ve got, or are they a pointless exercise, leading nowhere’?
Programme 4: The future of Islam
C4 Thurs 17 July 2008 at 12.20am
Is this year’s dramatic bid for the presidency the most important American election for Muslims across the world?

CHANNEL 4 SHARIAH TV SITE HERE

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