We’ll talk to for U.S. Ambassador Robert Jordan about the role he played in building relationships in the Middle East, which he writes about in Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11.
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The Origins Of Middle East Unrest
We’ll travel back in time a little more than a century with filmmaker Ben Loeterman to talk about how things turned sour, the subject of his film 1913: Seeds of Conflict.
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Liberating Women In The Middle East
This hour, we’ll hear from Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy, author of ‘Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution.’
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What ISIS Is After
We’ll talk about what the organization is actually trying to accomplish with Graeme Wood, who explores the question in the current issue of The Atlantic.
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A Moment Of Peace In The Middle East
This hour, we’ll talk to Lawrence Wright about his book Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David (Knopf), which explores how peace in the Middle East was found during the 1978 meeting.
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A Year in Iran
Hoomad Mjad joins us this hour to talk about his memoir, The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran.
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The Arab Youth Movement
Since the Arab Spring, some Westerners have grown optimistic about the region. This hour, we’ll find out if that optimism is warranted with the author of The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East.
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Inside Israel
We’ll talk this hour to Jerusalem-based journalist Matthew Kalman about the current state of affairs in the Middle East. Kalman is in town to address the annual meeting of American Jewish Committee.
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The Costs Of Covering War
As part of our special Memorial Day episode of Think, we’ll listen back to our interview from last fall with NPR war correspondent Kelly McEvers.
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War Journalism, In 140 Characters Or Less
How have newsgathering and reporting changed with the immediacy of social media?
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The Arab Awakening and Change in the Middle East
How is the Arab Awakening changing the geopolitical dynamic in the Middle East and what might the future hold for Syria, Iran, and their neighbors?
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The Arab Awakening and Change in the Middle East
How is the Arab Awakening changing the geopolitical dynamic in the Middle East and what might the future hold for Syria, Iran, and their neighbors?
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