ALEIDA CALLEJA Interrupted service

Community radio on the front line in Mexico

ANAT BALINT Piracy goes kosher

Israeli settlers join the media game

KRISTEN ESS SCHURR Taboo buster

Jordan’s hero of the airwaves

SHIRAZUDDIN SIDDIQI Real lives

The programme the Taliban couldn’t ban

ERNEST WAITITU Too free too fast

How Kenya’s broadcasters fell foul of the law

INDEX INDEX

BODY WORKS MARGE BERER Covered up

The full frontal that got pulled

OMID SALEHI Make me beautiful

Inside the world of Iranian cosmetic surgery

FICTION JAVAD MAHZADEH My best friend

Exclusive extract from his novel

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BBC World Service radio transmitters, Suffolk, UK Credit: Clynt Garnham Suffolk / Alamy