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	<description>.: Social Entrepreneurship To Support A Children's Hospital In Basra :.</description>
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		<title>October 2012: Sunday Times: “My Week” diary piece</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article below was a diary piece for the Sunday Times (Irish edition) published in October 2012 (this is the original piece &#8211; published article was slightly different due to editing.) John Reynolds Sunday Times Oct2012 (opens PDF document) AS a part-time freelance business journalist, many of the Irish businesspeople I speak to in the course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Completed film from visit to Basra in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The updated film from my visit to Basra last May is on: http://vimeo.com/45064203 4Basra is a partner of the Aladdin&#8217;s Magic Lamp Project &#8211; a Vienna-based charity that has been supporting the Basrah Children&#8217;s Cancer Hospital in the city of Basrah in southern Iraq, and which brings children from the region to Europe for life-saving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short excerpts of film from trip to Basra, May 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN May of last year I travelled to Basra with film-maker Dearbhla Glynn in order to visit the two hospitals supported by the Aladdin&#8217;s Magic Lamp Project. A report written shortly after our return was published in the Irish Times. A film from the trip will be completed in the next month or two, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith Healers Rewarded by Shortage of Psychiatrists in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JOHN REYNOLDS BUSINESS is booming for faith healers in Basra, according to Dr Akeel Al-Sabbagh, senior lecturer at the city’s Medical College and Director of the region’s Mental Health Council. &#8220;Since the second Gulf War ended in 2003, there are thousands of them here, charging patients as much as 10 times what it would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 2011: Irish Times: Children Pay the Ultimate Price of Iraq’s Poisonous Wartime Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 14:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE airy, bright and modern corridors of the new, $166m 101-bed Laura Bush hospital for children with cancer are a short car journey from the colourfully painted, but aging Ibn Ghazwan maternity and children’s hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. They provide a rare contrast to the greyish, brown city streetscape, whose dusty, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excerpts from Basra Diary December 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following excerpts are from a report written by Dr Eva-Maria Hobiger, entitled &#8216;The Withering of the Garden of Eden,&#8221; following a trip she made to Iraq and the Iraq/Kuwait border in December 2009. DROUGHT WHERE for thousands of years, the area of southern Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was extremely fertile, life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falluja Doctors Report Rise in Birth Defects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An outstanding report from the BBC&#8217;s John Simpson on the eve of Gordon Brown&#8217;s statement to the Chilcot Inquiry. In January, The Guardian reported on how Iraq is littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, according to a study.]]></description>
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		<title>The Guardian: Huge Rise in Birth Defects in Falluja</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today The Guardian reports on the huge rise in birth defects in the war-torn city of Falluja. Dr Chris Burns-Cox, who previously helped 4Basra with some fundraising, is part of a group of Iraqi and British officials who have petitioned the UN general assembly to ask that an independent committee fully investigate the defects and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basra Diary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Eva-Maria Hobiger, of the Aladdin’s Magic Lantern organisation, which 4Basra supports, attended an international medical conference in May at the University of Basra – making a visit has been impossible due to the violence in the city over the past several years. Below are some extracts from her diary: WE pass the cities of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost One Year On…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regrettably, it&#8217;s been almost a year since the last update on here due to other work pressures. During that time, the global economic crisis has taken a lot of attention away from Iraq. In that time there has been some semblance of peace in Basra, according to media reports. But much basic infrastructure seems some time [...]]]></description>
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