FROM PUPPET TO PARIAH -- THE U.S. RELATIONSHIP WITH IRAN,
The World, October 25-28, 2004: A special four-part series
tracing the history of American-Iranian relations from the 1953 through the
1979 revolution and beyond.
MIDDLE EAST AND THE WEST -- A TROUBLED HISTORY (1098-2004):
A six-part summer 2004 "All Things Considered" special audio series in which
reporter Mike Shuster traces the relationship between the Middle East and the
West from the time of The Crusades to the recent wars in Iraq.
REPEATING HISTORY IN IRAQ? -- LETTERS OF GERTRUDE BELL, CIRCA 1920, SHED LIGHT
ON TODAY'S CRISIS: A May 15,
2004 "All Things Considered" audio news feature in which Brown University
Director of Middle East Studies William Beeman compares the American
occupation of Iraq to the period immediately after World War I.
PERILS OF IGNORING HISTORY,
On Point, April 26, 2004. The guest is Columbia University Arab
Studies professor Rashid Khalidi, author of Resurrecting Empire, Western
Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East.
SHIFTING SANDS, SAUDI ARABIA,
Inside Out, November 21, 2003. Correspondent Michael Goldfarb
investigates Saudi Arabia's past and present in this special presentation from
Boston Public Radio.
INVENTING IRAQ: Toby
Dodge, senior research fellow at the ERC Centre for the Study of Globalism and
Regionalism at the University of Warwick and the author of Inventing Iraq
-- The Failure of Nation-Building and A History Denied as the November 5,
2003 guest for the Boston Public Radio show On Point.
ALL THE SHAH'S MEN, On
Point, August 20, 2003. New York Times correspondent Stephen
Kinzer discusses his new book, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the
Roots of Middle East Terror.
THE REAL "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA":
A May 3, 2003 Weekend Edition audio feature about the British officer who
helped to lead a World War I era revolt of the Arabs against the Ottoman
Empire.
HISTORIAN MARGARET MACMILLAN
, Fresh Air, April 28, 2003.
The author of Paris 1919 -- Six Months That Changed
the World discusses the re-drawing of Middle Eastern boundaries after World
War I.
BRITISH EXPERIENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST:
An April 4, 2003 episode of the Boston Public Radio show On Point in which
Boston University David Fromkin discusses the British experience of
nation-building after World War I.
A HISTORY OF TWO
COUNTRIES, Connection, April 3, 2003.
Looking back to a time when relations between the United States and Saddam
Hussein's Iraq were more cordial.
ARARAT, Connection, December 10, 2002. A conversation with filmmaker Atom Egoyan.
SADDAM HUSSEIN, Talk of the
Nation, December 5, 2002. On the eve of the Second Gulf War, host Neal
Conan interviews three experts about the Iraqi leader's biography and character.
HISTORY AND CULTURE OF IRAQ, Talk of the Nation,
September 19, 2002: Host Neal Conan talks with three guests about the
history of Iraq.
REVOLUTIONARY ISLAM, Inside Out, January 1, 2002. A special documentary from Boston public radio WBUR about the rise of Islamism.
ARAB WORLD AND THE WEST, PART I:
A December 20, 2001 American Radio Works audio special in which Sandy Tolan
reports on the long history of tensions between the Middle East and the West.
ARAB WORLD AND THE WEST, PART II:
Sandy Tolan concludes his December 20, 2001 report.
MILITANT ISLAM, Connection, September 20, 2001. A primer on Islamic fundamentalism in the aftermath of the World Trade Center bombing.
REASSESSING THE 1991 GULF WAR,
World of Ideas, February 25, 2001. Highlights from a three-day
Boston University conference on the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the
war, including the keynote address from former National Security Advisor Brent
Scowcroft.