Shereen Meraji
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2007
- Affiliation during program:
- National Public Radio, Los Angeles
- Country:
- Lebanon
- Year:
- 2007
- Email:
- [email protected]
Shereen Meraji works for National Public Radio in Los Angeles as a producer and director for the program "Day to Day." She's worked in radio for almost a decade. She got her start in radio journalism filing and cataloging audio tapes for a media non-profit in Oakland. From there she taught herself how to edit audio digitally and began conducting her own interviews. She's filed stories from the Arizona/Mexico border on the spike in migrant deaths in the Sonora desert and reported from the UN's World Conference Against Racism in South Africa. She also enjoys producing cultural stories. At the same time that Meraji began her career in journalism, she became active in the Afro-Brazilian martial art, capoeira.
Stories
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Gay community thrives in Lebanon
Homosexuality is forbidden in most of the Arab world, and is against the law in Lebanon. But the gay community is quietly flourishing in Beirut, and some young Lebanese are hoping ...
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Hip-Hop in Beirut: Same Sound, Different Song
FARAI CHIDEYA, host: I'm Farai Chideya and this is NEWS & NOTES.We wrapped up our discussion of global hip-hop today in the Middle East. Shereen Meraji is a producer for our ...
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A Year After War, Young Lebanese Men Look Ahead
Ali Fadlallah kneels at his mother's grave in the martyr cemetery in Ainata. His younger sister is also buried in the cemetery. In the bombed-out village of Ainata, Lebanon, ...
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Group Turns Basketball into a Bridge in Lebanon
Rabiah Hamoush coaches basketball workshops for GAM3 on a court next to the Tarik El Jedidah neighborhood in Lebanon. Just a few months back, deadly violence broke out there ...
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