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Interview Archives: Middle East
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
12:40 pm
AL-JAZEERA: HOW THE FREE ARAB NEWS NETWORK SCOOPED THE WORLD AND CHANGED THE MIDDLE EAST
Mohammed El-Nawawy, Former journalist with the Associated Press in Cairo and the Middle East News Agency, professor of journalism at the University of West Florida
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Categories: Media and journalism • Middle East
Thursday, May 30, 2002
12:40 pm
THE RECKONING: IRAQ AND THE LEGACY OF SADDAM HUSSEIN
Sandra Mackey, Journalist and commentator on the Middle East for CNN
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Middle East • Iraq
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
12:40 pm
ANSWERING ONLY TO GOD: FAITH AND FREEDOM IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY IRAN
Jonathan Lyons, Served as the bureau chief of an international news agency in Iran and Turkey
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Categories: Politics • Religion • Middle East • Iran
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
1:06 pm
READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A MEMOIR IN BOOKS
Azar Nafisi, Research associate at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies
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Categories: Biography • Business History • Gender issues • Literature • Middle East • Iran
Thursday, September 25, 2003
1:06 pm
NAKED IN BAGHDAD: THE IRAQ WAR AS SEEN BY NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S CORRESPONDENT
Anne Garrels, Roving correspondent for NPR's foreign desk
Guest Host: Tom Rogers
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Categories: Media and journalism • Veterans • War • Middle East • Iraq
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
1:06 pm
THE BURNING TIGRIS: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AND AMERICA’S RESPONSE
Peter Balakian, The Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English at Colgate University
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • Human Rights • International Affairs • Europe • Turkey • Middle East
Thursday, October 23, 2003
2:45 pm
MAYADA DAUGHTER OF IRAQ: ONE WOMAN’S SURVIVAL UNDER SADDAM HUSSEIN
Jean Sasson, Writer and lecturer who has lived in Saudi Arabia
Mayada Al-Askari, Political prisoner under Saddam Hussein
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Categories: Biography • Gender issues • History • Politics • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • Iraq
Thursday, March 04, 2004
1:06 pm
BLINDED BY THE SUNLIGHT: EMERGING FROM THE PRISON OF SADDAM'S IRAQ
Matthew McAllester, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Newsday's United Nations Bureau Chief, and foreign correspondent covering the Middle East
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Categories: Biography • Criminal Justice • Incarceration • Justice • War • Middle East • Iraq
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
1:06 pm
American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story Of Anna Spafford And The American Colony In Jerusalem
Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Former Journalist with The New York Times
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Categories: Biography • Community • Middle East
Friday, January 15, 2010
1:06 pm
Gray Land: Soldiers on War
Barry Goldstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medical Humanities, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Visiting Professor of Humanities, Williams College
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Categories: Military • Photography • War • Middle East • Iraq
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