As the Hajj - pilgrimage to Mecca - begins, Christiane looks at how it reflects Islam and its shifts today.

• Guide to the Hajj pilgrimage
  
• The Hajj meets H1N1
  

Is the increasing reliance on drones to kill al Qaeda insurgents undermining U.S. efforts to win the hearts and minds of the people?

• Documentary: Warfare by Remote
  
• Remote warfare: new kind of stress
  

A European Union commissioner tells Christiane Amanpour that Europe's policy toward Cuba in the future will place less emphasis on human rights in the island nation than now.

• Obama writes to Cuban blogger
  
• U.S. lawmakers: lift travel ban
  

Tell us what life is like in your part of the world. Each week we'll play a short film on our program that challenges how we understand the world. Use your video camera, webcam or cellphone:

• iReport.com: Submit your film
  
• Bereaved families speak
  
• Walleyball: US/Mex Border
  

We're using Wordle.net word clouds to show what's said most during our interviews:

• Sec. Clinton Speech in Russia
  
• Obama terrorism speech
  
• Queen Rania of Jordan
  
• Hillary Clinton & Robert Gates
  
• Robert Mugabe
  

A simple yet powerful way to join the debate. Build on the conversation - giving your opinion and ideas:

• Enter the DebateGraph
  
• How to use DebateGraph
  

Join the Amanpour staff for our weekly webcast. Submit your questions for the guests on Facebook or Twitter. Watch previous webisodes here:

• Iran hostage & Carter Aide
  
• ElBaradei talks about IAEA
  
• South Asia's U.N. Ambassadors
  
• Update from Congo
  
• U.N. Sec. General Ban Ki-moon
  
• Army Major Vincent Heintz
  
• David Kilcullen
  
• Madeleine Albright & Pin Diplomacy
  
• Russian Ambassador to U.N.
  

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CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour's live global interview program, "Amanpour," combines her experience, sharp intelligence and extraordinary depth of knowledge to help set the agenda for a new global conversation.

• More about the show
  
• Christiane Amanpour: Biography
  

Christiane explores the battle for the hearts and minds of youth in the Muslim world.

• Generation Islam
  
• Video: The would-be suicide bomber
  

Christiane examines the rise of religious fundamentalism in three faiths: Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

• God's Warriors
  
• Rev. Jerry Falwell's final interview