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December 7, 1993

Specials

01. The Martyr's Smile

In the first part of a three-part series examining the wave of Islamic militancy sweeping the Muslim world, journalist Robert Fisk, traces the rise of Hezbollah, the most anti-Western group in the Arab world.

52min
December 7, 1993

02. The Road To Palestine

Robert Fisk looks at the rise of Hamas (the PLO fundamentalist group in Gaza).

52min
December 14, 1993

03. To The Ends Of The Earth

Robert Fisk visits the Cairo suburb of Imbada to investigate why Arab fundamentalists are violently denouncing the West despite huge American grants to support Egypt. He talks to members of Egypt's most radical Muslims - the Gemaa Islamia about their stragey. In the second part of the programme he travels to Sarajevo where European Muslims continue defending their right to exist; Fisk reports on the scale of devastation and reflects on the West's failure to understand or truly sympathise with the Muslim world.

52min
December 21, 1993