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(Jean Dominique)
Jean Dominique was a determined fighter of poverty, injustice, and oppression in Haiti. Filmmaker Jonathan Demme’s latest, "The Agronomist,", is a cinematic portrait of the slain Haitian national hero, and he’s here with Michele Montas, Dominique’s widow and a journalist herself, to talk about Dominique’s unsolved murder. Then, a discussion with Ian Buruma on the phenomenon of Occidentalism and how Asians, Russians, and Middle Easterners perceive the West. And Cheryl Reed takes an inside look at the lives of modern North American nuns.
Jonathan Demme and Michele Montas
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme’s "The Agronomist" is about Jean Dominique, Haitian national hero, journalist, and human rights activist. Demme is joined by journalist Michele Montas, the widow of Jean Dominique.
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Music: Die Hard With a Vengeance #4,7
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Music: Die Hard With a Vengeance #4,7
Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is co-author with Avishai Margalit of Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies. Buruma’s previous books include Inventing Japan, Anglomania, and Bad Elements.
Cheryl Reed
Cheryl Reed, a non-Catholic, is the author of Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns. She interviewed more than 300 nuns from a wide variety of orders, from self-flogging nuns who barely speak, to those who work in homeless shelters and as prison chaplains.
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