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Underreported: Repatriation or Resettlement for Bhutanese Refugees?

106,000 Bhutanese refugees have been living in Nepal for 16 years. Now, the US has offered to resettle 60,000 of them, which has given hope to the refugees, but has also increased tensions in the camps. Refugees who insist on repatriation to Bhutan as the only acceptable solution have been threatening and intimidating those who support resettlement in the US. Bill Frelick is refugee policy director at Human Rights Watch, which just issued a new report called "Last Hope: The Need for Durable Solutions for Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal and India."

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Underreported: Sudanese Refugees in Israel

Over the past couple of years, more than 200 Sudanese refugees have fled to Israel via Egypt to escape the ongoing violence in Sudan. Since Sudan is technically an enemy state to Israel, many of the refugees have been languishing in Israeli prisons while the government decides how to proceed. We ask about the uncertain legal status of the refugees, and find out what's happening to them in the meantime. Michael Kagan, an American lawyer based in Cairo, Egypt, is adjunct faculty at Tel Aviv University's Refugee Rights Clinic. He regularly consults on Sudanese and other refugee cases in Israel.

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Soccer Shues

Before Elisabeth Shue was an acclaimed actress, she was an aspiring high school soccer star. She joins her brother Andrew Shue to talk about "Gracie," their new film based loosely on Elisabeth’s experiences playing on an all-boys soccer team in New Jersey in the 1970s.

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Thick as Thieves

In Thick as Thieves, Steve Geng explores his relationship with his sister, the New Yorker writer and editor Veronica Geng. The siblings were bound to each other by their childhood, even as her literary career took off and he became involved in crime, eventually going to jail and battling addiction.

Thick as Thieves is available for purchase at amazon.com

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Bruce Dern on Hollywood

In Things I’ve Said, But Probably Shouldn’t Have, actor Bruce Dern looks back over his career in Hollywood, working with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, and Jane Fonda. And he explains why he turned down roles in "The Godfather" and "Gandhi."

Things I’ve Said, But Probably Shouldn’t Have is available for purchase at amazon.com

Events: Bruce Dern will be speaking with Leonard
Thursday, May 31 at 8:15 pm
The 92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, at 92nd Street
For tickets, visit the 92nd Street Y website or call 212-415-5500.

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