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Ahmed Rashid On Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist based in Lahore. He was the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, for 22 years until the magazine was recently closed down.
Recorded on 6.10.2008 |  |
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Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror
In his twenty-nine years as a public defender, Wax had never had to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a "black site", one of our country's dreaded secret prisons. How had our country come to this?
Recorded on 6.6.2008 |  |
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Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War
In his book, Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War, Jimmie Briggs book provides a vitally important perspective on the global tragedy of child soldiers. More than 250,000 children have fought in three dozen conflicts around the world.
Recorded on 5.15.2008 |  |
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Poem Presents: Piotr Sommer - Lecture
Piotr Sommer has translated a wide-range of authors: John Ashbery, John Berryman, D. J. Enright, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Koch, Robert Lowell, Derek Mahon, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Reznikoff.
Recorded on 5.9.2008 |  |
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Poem Presents: Piotr Sommer - Reading
Piotr Sommer is a poet, essayist, and translator of Anglo-American poetry into Polish. He has published seven collections of his poems, two books of essays.
Recorded on 5.8.2008 |  |
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Poem Presents: Leslie Scalapino - Lecture
Leslie Scalapino’s Selected Poems, 1974-2006/It’s go in horizontal is forthcoming from University of California Press at Berkeley in spring 2008.
Recorded on 4.25.2008 |  |
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Poem Presents: Leslie Scalapino - Reading
Leslie Scalapino’s new book of poetry, Day Ocean State of Stars’ Night, is a collection of the last eight years. In total, she is the author of thirty books of poetry, inter-genre fiction-poetry-criticism and plays.
Recorded on 4.24.2008 |  |
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The Next Great Clash
In The Next Great Clash, Michael Levin presents evidence of a global political order on the verge of a historic power shift from West to East.
Recorded on 4.15.2008 |  |
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Poem Present: Matthea Harvey - Reading
Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.
Recorded on 4.10.2008 |  |
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