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World Service,31 Jan 2013,18 mins

Nihad Sirees

The Strand

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Samira Ahmed The Syrian writer Nihad Sirees talks about his new novel The Silence and the Roar over the course of one day as he walks though a city blocked by thousands of people on an orchestrated demonstration in support of the 'leader'. Visionary Danish architect Bjarke Ingels gives us his ideas for the future of cities. If you have a vision for the future and want to be in with a chance of winning a top of the range laptop, why not enter the BBC's What If competition? Image courtesy of Pushkin Press

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