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Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright appears in the following:

Decade 9/11: Lawrence Wright and Fawaz Gerges

Friday, September 09, 2011

Lawrence Wright, staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 and the director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics and author of The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda, Fawaz Gerges, discuss the battle against terrorism over the last decade.

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Al Qaeda Post-bin Laden

Monday, May 02, 2011

Lawrence Wright, staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, discusses the future of Al Qaeda now that Osama bin Laden is dead.

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Protest Context: The History of Mubarak Abuses

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Torture actually spread, it became sort of an epidemic, which is what it is today, I'm sorry to say. It happens in police stations, it happens not just with political dissidents, it happens with people just picked up for suspicion of committing ordinary crimes. This has become a serious and widespread problem.

Joe Stork deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division, on The Brian Lehrer Show

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Wright on Scientology

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Lawrence Wright, staff writer for the New Yorker, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11and fellow at the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law, discusses his latest article about the Church of Scientology.

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“My Trip to Al Qaeda”

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and playwright Lawrence Wright discusses the film adaptation of his one-man show “My Trip to Al Qaeda.” It chronicles fundamentalist Islam’s rise to power, as well as his struggle to maintain objectivity as a journalist in the wake of 9/11.  “My Trip to Al Qaeda” debuts at 9:00 pm, September 7, on HBO.

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Guest Picks: Lawrence Wright

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Lawrence Wright is a fan of Dr. John's piano instruction tapes. Find out what other favorite picks he revealed to us after his recent appearance on The Leonard Lopate Show

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The Wright Stuff

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Lawrence Wright, staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, discusses his Pulitzer Prize and his one-man play “My Trip to Al Qaeda.”

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Can I Get a Witness?

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

In December Matthew LaClair, a student and Kearney High School, and his father Paul, came on the show to talk about Matthew's history teacher's prostelytizing during class. They share the outcome of their suit against the school district. Also: the return of the Equal Rights Amendment; Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright; ...