Deborah Campbell joins us to tell the story of her quest to reunite with Ahlam, a local fixer who helped her cover the war in Syria.
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Inside The Mind Of Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer joins us to talk about his latest effort, “Here I Am,” which focuses on a family in crisis living in Washington.
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A Saudi Woman Takes The Wheel
Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca as a member of a fundamentalist family. She joins us to talk about being a feminist in a patriarchy.
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What ISIS Wants
Graeme Wood joins us to talk about what ISIS is actually trying to accomplish, a question he explores in his new book, “The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.”
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A Conversation With Bassem Youssef
Bassem Youssef joins us to talk about taking a satirical approach to the very serious situation in the Middle East.
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A Look At The Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley joins us to share the stories of refugees from the Middle East and Africa who have fled their homelands in search of a peaceful existence.
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The Terror Years
This hour, we’ll talk with Lawrence Wright about shifts in power in the Middle East over the last decade, the subject of his new book, “The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State.”
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The Evolution of Zionism
This hour, we’ll talk about the many steps that led to the establishment of Israel – and its future in the region – with Milton Viorst. His new book is called “Zionism: The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal.”
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Adventures In Arabic
This hour, we’ll talk with Zora O’Neill about how she immersed herself in the Middle East, mastered the language and broadened her worldview in the process. She writes about the experience in her memoir, “All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
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A Trip To The Holy Land
This hour, we’ll talk about a rather strange trip to the Holy Land Tom Bissell took with a Jewish talk-show host and his Christian listeners.
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Europe’s Migrant Crisis
This hour, we’ll talk about the current state of the migrant crisis in Europe – and about how these asylum seekers can be better served – with James Hollifield, public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and director of the Tower Center for Political Studies at SMU.
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Handling The Refugee Crisis
This hour, in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Dallas-Fort Worth, we’ll talk about how the refugee question is playing out across the globe and here in North Texas.
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