Middle East Audio

[4:31]..." idea but just last year we started the notion of having a Middle East strategy group. That would help build up school's Internet services and small businesses in the Palestinian territories. Using Israeli and American and "...

[1:31]..." spent twenty years covering conflicts from Latin America and Africa and the Middle East the Balkans and you can understand the reality of war to see it through the eyes of the victims in in wartime "...

[2:17]..." the first Persian gulf war and then was in the Middle East afterwards. I didn't I didn't go over for this one and you did have a small window after the initial occupation and "...

[24:02]..." is not sustainable you know you go like used to cover the Middle East it was Middle East bureau chief for the near times -- remember always going through the airport Algiers. And the big sign in the airport says "...

[45:52]..." disheartening and unsettling information and images that we get out of the Middle East. There's a movie just out on dvd that stands apart. It's a fictional feature film and it takes place in Beirut in "...

[45:52]..." disheartening and unsettling information and images that we get out of the Middle East. There's a movie just out on dvd that stands apart. It's a fictional feature film and it takes place in Beirut in "...

[5:13]..." seen in recent years -- one does Somalia Kenya. At about the Middle East right now in Iraq they all have to do with I don't. "...

[27:42]..." serious attempt to bring about some kind of peace agreement. In the Middle East it was seen the same sort of thing today with the Bush Administration. In both cases so they don't look like they're going to be on an effective and recently I had. The former Jordanian ambassador to Washington and earlier to. To Jerusalem to the aid to Israel the first Jordanian ambassador to Israel and he said that the problem and as he sought with the American -- policy. In regard to Middle East is that we wait until the end of a term before we even address it that that sends a very bad signal to people in the Middle East. "...

[28:27]..." bush Clinton and George W. Bush to enter office thinking that the Middle East and specifically the peace process. Can really bring you nothing but trouble. And you're better off sort of leaving it to others "...

[0:32]..." the more moderate Arab states -- to create peace in the Middle East. How does their views differ from existing plants and why have we heard so little from them. Here to talk about the "...

[32:31]..." at the time once the war on Iraq so it gave the Middle East or not only and its. -- here during the time of the 9/11 attacks orange and I was on it then on "...

[5:47]..." out that the dragged that in rather as things happen in the Middle East but haven't we been weakened in recent years because. The impact of the war in Iraq and also. The the damage to "...

[12:49]..." wasn't recycled effective. Do you think that the political turmoil in the Middle East is likely to have an impact on economic growth the nation. I don't think it is actually I think that Asia is found and it says. Barring nuclear war barring some incredibly extreme catastrophes that it can get along fine without while -- too much about them at least. And I used to sign that the economist at them. While those great interest in the United States and European Cup as a about the Middle East crisis Asians will -- an interest as a tool because they've basically didn't think it mattered to them. "...

[14:06]..." States he talks about the Arab centrist approach to reform in the Middle East which is. Particularly relevant in the light of the agreement on a cease fire between Israel and Hamas which is scheduled to "...

[19:24]..." effect. On the world of radicalism in the in in in the Middle East sections of the the -- the problem as the -- astronomical and the amount we can have a debate about whether that's "...

[1:15]..." model what the Bush Administration said it hoped to accomplish in the Middle East. That group is the Kurds. They occupied the north of Iraq and they have formed a Muslim region that is pro democracy pro America and even pro Israel. A few months ago I spoke with quill Lawrence the Middle East correspondent for the BBC and PRI. And author of invisible nation how the Kurds quest for statehood is shaping the Middle East. We re broadcasting that interview again now and I began by noting that America had a history of mistreating the Kurds. And "...

[6:20]..." My guess is Crue Lawrence who's the Middle East correspondent for the BBC PRI's the world he has spent much of the last seven years in Iraq and in Kurdistan he's written a book called invisible nation on the -- quest for statement is shaping Iraq and the Middle East. They're confused me it's published by walker. I have. This is WNYC WNYC dot org and look -- you've been making the "...

[13:25]..." in history. So when the that the Europeans were carving up the Middle East and they said okay this is Syria and they Drew a line -- this that this is. Iraq in the -- an "...