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It is most unfortunate that another interesting and relevant programme has this awful presenter, who is nothing short of patronising, FAKE and insincere. Typical Afghan / Asian young lady , plays on the western perception of a "Liberated" young Asian woman travelling the world all alone exposing the horrid ways of the East. Once was acceptable as a young Afghan woman visiting her own country post Taliban; however the Egypt documentary was awfully presented.

The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ must be getting really desperate to be giving her all this airtime. As a tax payer and contributor to the TV License fee I am seriously disappointed at the standard and calibre of presenter and journalist. What are her credentials, can any one now go around with a film crew and get on tv? SHOCKING.

Unbelievable, shocking but true.... went to read comments on another one of the threads about this series and comment 1. from John states exactly the same; too young, inexperienced and 'PATRONISING'. Coincidence?.... don't think so.

This is not the fault of the presenter (you cannot blame her for taking an assignment such as this - all helps when you are a fledgling journo/presenter) - the blame should wholly be blamed on the producers and the commisioning editor - what were they thinking? A great opportunity lost to reach out to the so-called "Yoof" segment. You are certainly creating alot of negative feedback with regards to the poor lack of quality & judgement. A very good idea - which got lost!

Hey, whats all this flack aimed at the presenter!! Personally I have found Nel and her sincere presentation to be a breath of fresh air. Fantastic programme and fantastic reporting.

@Musaafir...As a British born Bengali woman I am offended by your comment 'Typical Afghan / Asian young lady , plays on the western perception of a "Liberated" young Asian woman'!! I am a free, liberal and open minded woman and like many of my fellow women we don't need liberating thank you very much!! Nelufar Hedayat is a product of positive discrimination, one needs to look at her first documentary on Afghanistan to know, the young lady is quite clearly unsure about who she is...she is an Afghan woman who effectively is somewhat British but follows a hit and miss attitude towards Islam. She is not a representative of Muslim women or Islam and labeling herself as one is dangerous and slippery slope. Not her fault though, it seems to me that 'Muslim' presenters make a point of stating their religion which you don't get with presenters of other religious denominations. Back to the documentary...very poorly researched, presented with a very naive presenter acting like a 16 year old then the 20+ year old she is. Sorry ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ major failure and please don't use her for future documentaries. I just about got over the 'Child Brides' scene were she tells a brother who lost his teen sister in child birth how beautiful she is after hearing she dead...I mean really, insensitive much?

Fake and insincere??? I think that anyone who goes to any country where you would be afraid for your life should be applauded. I really dont think that in an hour you would be able to cover all topics that you would want to include.
Nel did not highlight herself as a Muslim but an English woman whose parents fled from Afganistan - I dont think that the focus was on religion but revolution, war and violence which has a devestating impact on everyone in the country.
I have a lot of respect for Nel - I dont think I would have been so brave at 24 years old - you go girl!!!

@Tanb...In her first documentary were she returns to Afghanistan I recall her comments of not being able to identify herself as fully British and recall herself stating herself as a Muslim. Nelufar Hedayats documentaries has her inputting her personal issues into it hence my comment. Religion in this revolution is highly significant which is briefly touched on by this documentary and if you assume it is insignificant because of this documentary then quite clearly the production team have failed in their objective of bringing the understanding of the revolution to you.

Here is a comment I made on two other forums in relation to the other part of this documentary, as well as on one relating to child brides. My message to Nelufar is "DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED BY ANY OF THESE AND OTHER NEGATIVE COMMENTS. YOU ARE GOING FAR AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN IN MANY OTHER PROGRAMMES. THE ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ MADE A GOOD CHOICE." :-

"I have just watched Nelufar Hedayat on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖThree presenting a documentary about Riots and Revolutions: My Arab Journey, and I am absolutely astonished at the confidence and courage of this girl, whose youthful looks belie a maturity and intelligence that some of the comments on this forum do not give her credit for. I find her honest, intelligent, confident and courageous. She thought nothing of talking with these 'macho' men with courage and intelligence and a total lack of self-conscienciousness, and although these men could easily have treated her with patronising contempt as she is female and looks so young, they did not and showed a great deal of respect for her.

I hope very much that we see Nelufar in more of these programmes."

I thought this was an excellent documentary bringing to reality the suffering and shock of the people of the Arab Spring.

My only problem, as with the first part, is that not enough was explained about the West's role in both propping up the dictators and then tearing them down.

For example, the West has armed and funded Gaddafi for many years, though he had become somewhat isolated at times. Then, the West, through Nato, bombed Libya to destroy his regime.

So the West are making and unmaking dictators - this is true in Egypt, Bahrain (haven't been unmade yet), though, not of Syria, where Russia and China are the godfathers. The programme completely overlooked this truth.