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Part 1 On Middle East Conflict: Palestine (Audio)
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Guests:
Edward Said
*Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia
University
*Author of more than twenty books, including Orientalism,
Covering Islam, and Peace and It's Discontents: Essays on Palestine
in the Middle East Peace Process
Steve McCurry
*Photographer, National Geographic
Violence between Israel and Palestinians is the worst it has been
in years. To understand better what is going on, Talk of the Nation
hosts a two-part conversation this week with leading thinkers on
the Middle East -- one Palestinian, the other Israeli. In Part One,
Neal Conan talks with Palestinian writer Edward Said, a cultural
critic and controversial advocate of Palestinian rights about the
politics and history of the Middle East conflict.
Part 2 on Middle East Conflict (Audio)
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Guests:
Martin Kramer
* Editor, Middle East Quarterly in Philadelphia, PA
* Former Chair, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East Studies,
Tel Aviv University
* Author 20 books on Islam most recently Ivory Towers on Sand:
The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (The Washington
Institute for Near East Policy, 2001)
Stanley Meises
* Lives a couple of blocks from the World Trade Center tower site.
Witnessed the collapse of both towers.
On the Next Talk of the Nation, the second part of a two-part
series on the conflict in the Middle East. Neal Conan will talk with
author and scholar Martin Kramer of Tel Aviv University about the
Israeli side. What effect has the war on terrorism had and what
do Israelis see as the road to peace? |
