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Marwan Muasher, former Jordanian Foreign Minister and ambassador to the United States, talked about his book, The Second Arab Awakening: And the Battle for Pluralism, in which he takes a cri…

Michael Korda recounts the life of Lawrence of Arabia. An archeologist and Oxford scholar, T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935), departed for Cairo as a British intelligence officer in 1916 and a year …

Karl Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac talked about their book, Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East (W.W. Norton and Co.; June 17, 2008). In the book the authors present a histo…

Professor Nakash talked about his book Reaching for Power: The Shi’a in the Modern Arab World, published by Princeton University Press. He examined the meaning of the rise of the Shi’a in th…

Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg talked about their book The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey Into the World of the Suicide Bomber, published by Oxford University Press. They discusse…

Co-Authors, Mohammed El-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar spoke about their book, "Al-Jazeera". In the book the authors chronicle the rise of the Qatar-based Arab news network to a major player in th…