To understand the momentous events that have occurred in the Middle East over the last two decades we must understand the crucial interplay of Cold War powers there from 1945 to 1990. Rashid Khalidi, is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
This program was produced by Building Bridges for April 28, 2009.
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Phyllis Bennis: “There were negotiations going on between Israelis and Palestinians back in 2000, then-prime minister Barak, Ehud Barak, offered to the Palestinians, who of course were demanding, appropriately, that their capital of their Palestinian state should be in the Palestinian city of East Jerusalem. And instead, Barak said, of course, we can’t allow that to happen, but we’ll let you have your capital in Abu Dis. We’ll even let you call it Al-Quds, which is Arabic for Jerusalem.”
This program was produced by The Real News for August 2, 2008.
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The End of History: With a Period, Not a Question Mark – The Nation
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Sylvain Cypel joined the French daily newspaper Le Monde (meaning The World) as editor-in-chief in 1998, following a five-year tenure as editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Courrier International.
From 1990 to 1991 he served as deputy editor of the monthly economic magazine Mensuel, and from 1989-1990 he held the same post at the monthly supplement to the economic daily newspaper Les Echos. Cypel worked as a freelance journalist for the public television network France 2, the daily newspaper Lib?ration and other media outlets between 1986 and 1988. From 1978 to 1985 he worked for the daily paper Le Matin de Paris, where he was responsible for reporters covering the Middle East.
Cypel holds BA degrees in sociology, contemporary history and international relations. He earned his last degree at the University of Jerusalem.
Cypel is the author of Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse (2006, Other Press), which looks at the history of thought in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This program was produced on April 16, 2008 by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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In this talk, Charles Smith, professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, gives an account of the history of Palestine and Israel. In the first part Smith describes the period from the first wave of Zionist immigrants up to the end of the British mandate in 1948. Smith then takes us from the foundation of the State of Israel to the 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank. In the third segment, Smith covers the 1967 and 1973 wars, the land-for-peace agreement with Egypt up to the Olso Accords and the first and second intifadas.
This program was produced for Alternative Focus by John Odam in 2006.
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We see images on TV of stone throwing children, the destruction following a suicide bomb attack and Israeli army tanks and helicopters. But what’s behind the conflict? On this program we take a look at the Palestinian’s long history of resistance to colonialism and the current conflict over the Occupied Territories.
Featuring: Hatem Bazian, Professor of Near East Studies at the University of California at Berkeley;
Najiya Shana, a Palestinian American residing in Washington, DC;
Moatsin Agha, a Palestinian from Gaza who was exiled after the 1967 war;
As’ad Abu Khalil, a Research Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and author of “Bin Laden, Islam and America’s New War on Terrorism”;
Marwan Barghouti, Secretary General of Fatah.
This program was produced for the National Radio Project for May 29, 2002.
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Voice of Palestine interviews two members of the freexero.com collective about their upcoming exhibition entitled “The wall of Nablus – From the Romans to Hamas”.
This program was produced by Voice of Palestine for Vancouver Cooperative Radio on March 27, 2007.
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Ilan Pappe on Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006). Interviewed by Nadim Mahjoub on Resonance FM Radio, 27 October 2006.
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This podcast was produced by the British Museum’s Middle East Now season.
Charles Glass gives his personal reflections on Edward Said providing us with an intimate insight into this well known, politically committed Palestinian American intellectual.
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Edward Said’s 1978 book Orientalism continues to provoke arguments about how the Orient is imagined. Join the debate with Robert Irwin, Maya Jasanoff, Gabriel Piterberg, Michael Wood and Paul Myerscough (chair).
This podcast was produced by the British Museum’s Middle East Now season.
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