The Brian Lehrer Show
Picture This
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
The cartoon of the prophet Muhammad sparked much debate about the limits of press freedoms, but there are still many unanswered questions, like why was there a caricature contest in a Danish paper in the first place? Plus: a look at the many faces of the Iraqi insurgency, the flip side of Valentine's Day, and your calls
Un-Funny Papers
Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of
Government at the Department of Anthropology at
Columbia University, Director of the Institute of African
Studies at SIPA and author,
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (Pantheon, 2004)
and
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Washington bureau chief of the German newsweekly Die Zeit
- on the controversy over the "Danish Cartoons"
» Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff's Washington Post op-ed
» Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia)
The Flip Side of Valentine's Day
Anna Jane Grossman, co-author
and
Flint Wainess co-author,
It's Not ME, It's YOU: The Ultimate Breakup Guide (Da Capo Press 2006)
- say that breaking up isn't so hard to do
» It's NOT me, it's YOU! (da Capo)
» Break Up News by Anna Jane Grossman and Flint Wainess
Incomprehensible Insurgency?
Zaki Chehab, political editor of Al Hayat and LBC TV and author,
and
Loretta Napoleoni, economist and author, Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation (Seven Stories Press, 2005)
-try to understand the Insurgency in Iraq
» Inside the Resistance: The Iraq Insurgency and the Future of the Middle East (Nation Books, 2005)
» Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation (Seven Stories Press, 2005)
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