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“A lot of people there don’t really seem to trust us.” This is what a colleague said to me after a visit to the South East of Turkey. By “us” he meant the UK and the West.
Last year when I joined the English-language centre at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, I thought it was just that – a centre for teaching English. As a student, I didn't expect it would be my window to the world.
As part of a recent partnership project between the British Council and social enterprise Offscreen Expeditions, six 18-21 year-olds from the UK travelled to Pakistan to explore the country behind the headlines. The Offscreen Expeditions website posts a new video from the Journey to Pakistan every Monday. This week's episode takes the young people to Mirpur. One of
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