November 21, 2009
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End Time in the Sunshine

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November / December 2006
Jack Hitt the Sun 
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Entering the new millennium, Nauru began earning money by taking in hundreds of Australia's unwanted refugees, most of whom were fleeing violence in Iraq. International shame forced Australia to find better conditions for them, although one Iraqi man, Muhammad Faisal, remains on the isolated, dying island. According to Australian newspapers, Faisal is 'on 24-hour watch because of fears of suicide.'

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Jack Hitt has also reported on Nauru for the Public Radio International show This American Life. A longer version of this essay originally appeared in the anthology Naked: Writers Uncover the Way We Live on Earth (Four Walls Eight Windows), edited by Susan Zakin. Reprinted from the Sun magazine (July 2006). Subscriptions: $36/yr. (12 issues) from Box 469061, Escondido, CA 92046; www.thesunmagazine.org.

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  • Bgordon 6/30/2009 12:52:04 PM

    Hello Liz,

    That is very odd. This version is written by Jack Hitt and reprinted (with permission) from the Sun, where he originally published it. Hitt is also a contributing editor for This American Life, where he’s done pieces about Nauru.

    I have no idea who Christine Armario is, but I’ll email that website and see.

    Thanks!

    Bennett Gordon

  • Liz T 6/30/2009 12:34:11 PM

    I noticed that this article is reprinted word-for-word in its entirety on CDNN, and credited to Christine Armario. The URL is http://www.cdnn.info/news/article/a090608.html. As I was reading that article I remembered hearing the exact same story on This American Life. Very odd.

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