{
  "id": 7499556,
  "title": "Behind the stage lights: How students learned to trust their voices with Doha Debates",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/behind-the-stage-lights-how-students-learned-to-trust-their-voices",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-15T06:58:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Peninsula Qatar",
    "slug": "the-peninsula-qatar",
    "url": "https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/15/09/2026/behind-the-stage-lights-how-students-learned-to-trust-their-voices-with-doha-debates"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "<p>Doha, Qatar: During high school years in Model United Nations, Dahlia Al-Ansari learned to argue on behalf of a country she was assigned to represent. But when Doha Debates invited her to join a town hall debate in Toronto this July, she faced an unfamiliar challenge: sharing her own beliefs about a timely issue.</p> <p>An 18-year-old biological sciences student at Carnegie Mellon University…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}