Gavin Esler and Anne Mackenzie explore issues from the four corners of the Earth - from politics to popular culture, art to anthropology.
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Monday 26 June 2006
This week on Four Corners ...
A Man's World?
This Thursday Kuwaiti women can stand for election and vote in parliamentary elections for the first time in the country's history. We ask the editor of Gulf News what this means for Kuwait, and an Iranian journalist joins us to tell us about Iranian women and politics.
Jumana Al Tamimi Middle East Editor for Gulf News, Dubai
Nazenin Ansari journalist for the Iranian newspaper Kayhan
Arabs and Americans
The US-Arab economic forum gets under way today in Houston, Texas. It was started last year to try to build understanding between Arabs and Americans. But what of those people who are both Arab and American?
There are more than three million Arab Americans - most of them Christians - but a growing number of Muslims. How do they bridge two cultures that often seem to be at loggerheads? And how do they feel about the way Arabs and the Arab world are portrayed in the American media?
Dr Jack Shaheen author and media critic, South Carolina, USA
Nidal Ibrahim Arab American Institute, Washington
World Cup Survival Kit
It's been revealed recently that the British take an estimated 22 million teabags and eight million jars of Marmite away with them every year. We'll be finding out what tourists from Iran, Italy and Trinidad just can't do without while they are at the World Cup in Germany
Mr Francesco Bongarra journalist, Rome
Ms Franka Philip Trinidadian journalist
Nazenin Ansari journalist for the Iranian newspaper Kayhan
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Anne Mackenzie
"Four Corner's brief is to explore the vagaries and nuances of life across different cultures, covering a remarkable cross section of stories that really do show how different and similar human beings are around the world."
"Four Corners is a programme that only the BBC has the range and confidence to undertake, it overturns stereotypes about people and cultures."
"Four Corner's brief is to explore the vagaries and nuances of life across different cultures, covering a remarkable cross section of stories that really do show how different and similar human beings are around the world."