DescriptionAudible presents a special collection of Fresh Air interviews related to the Mideast Crisis. You will hear from journalists Christopher Dickey of Newsweek, Jeffrey Goldberg of The New Yorker, James Bennett of The New York Times, Palestinian lawyer Raja Shehadeh, Israeli correspondent Yossi Klein Halevi, father and daughter Laura and David Blumenthal, Israeli journalist David Horovitz, and Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab.
DescriptionJeffrey Goldberg joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2000. His piece "The Great Terror", about the Iraqi use of chemical and biological weapons against the Kurdish population, won the Overseas Press Club Award for human-rights journalism. "I…
DescriptionOriginally, this talk was entitled "The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria." It was the second of three lectures sponsored by the Lebanese Club at MIT. Chomsky did not want to limit the talk to this one subject. Instead, he spoke about the objectives and ramifications of the U.S. presence in the Middle East: oil, Iraq, global planning, and delivering democracy via a military occupation. Chomsky also commented on developments in the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestine. Recorded on February 15, 2005 at M.I.T. in Cambridge, MA.
DescriptionDr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a respected, dedicated surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. He has learned to live with the violence that plagues his city and works tirelessly to help the victims brought to the emergency room. But one night, a deadly bombing in a local restaurant takes a horrifyingly personal turn, when his wife's body is found among the dead, bearing injuries that match those typically found on the bodies of fundamentalist suicide bombers. As evidence mounts that his wife, Sihem, was responsible for the catastrophic bombing, Dr. Jaafari must face the inescapable realization that the beautiful, intelligent, thoroughly modern woman he loved had a secret life that was far removed from the comfortable, assimilated existence they shared.
DescriptionGabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemies. But when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the world of art restoration, an occupation that had previously been a cover for his secret assignments. Now Ari Shamron, the head of Israeli intelligence, needs Gabriel's particular kind of experience to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the peace negotiations in the Middle East. The architect of this plot, a Palestinian zealot named Tariq, is a lethal part of Gabriel's past, so as the two being an intercontinental game of hide-and-seek, with life and death as the prizes, the motives are as personal as they are political.
