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How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.

We look at a campaign in Texas that takes aim at Islamic religious law. Then, the Mexican-American cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz explains why sensitive viewers should avoid his new TV show, ‘B´Ç°ù»å±ð°ù³Ù´Ç·É²Ô’. And, we hear how Salvador Dalí and a soft drink helped a poet laureate find his way in the US.

Also, we’ve got the story of onetime enemies in Bosnia who are now regulars at the same café in Arizona. An American tourist finds out that his passport is in the hands of smugglers in Turkey. And John Wurdeman tells us how a trip to a record store in the state of Virginia led him to a winery in the country of Georgia.

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27 minutes

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Sat 11 Jul 2015 19:32GMT

Chapters

  • Anti-Sharia Laws

    A political campaign in Texas takes aim at Islamic religious law

    Duration: 01:04

  • ‘B´Ç°ù»å±ð°ù³Ù´Ç·É²Ô’

    The cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz travels to Mexifornia, a fictitious town on the US border

    Duration: 06:27

  • First Days

    The poet Alejandro Murguía recounts his experience as a newly arrived immigrant in the US

    Duration: 03:38

  • Srebrenica Massacre

    Bosnian refugees live together in Arizona in the shadows of the Bosnian War

    Duration: 02:46

  • Stolen ID

    An American passport ends up in the hands of smugglers in Turkey

    Duration: 05:12

  • Pheasant’s Tears

    Raising wine in the former Soviet republic of Georgia

    Duration: 04:08

Broadcasts

  • Sat 11 Jul 2015 04:32GMT
  • Sat 11 Jul 2015 13:32GMT
  • Sat 11 Jul 2015 19:32GMT

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