Ian Masters' KPFK/Pacifica Radio Program
Guests and Program Detail
Sunday 11/25/07
11am Pacific Time
IAN MASTERS Host
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IAN MASTERS Host
LOUIS VANDENBERG Producer
KPFK 90.7fm Los Angeles -- listen live in the greater Los Angeles area
www.kpfk.org -- for live streaming and podcasting
www.ianmasters.org -- audio archives
BACKGROUND BRIEFING
11am Pacific Time
Rami Khouri is a Palestinian-Jordanian and US citizen whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth. He is an internationally syndicated political columnist and author, whose writing is distributed by Agence-Global. Rami Khouri the director of the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut, editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star, and co-laureate of the 2006 Pax Christi International Peace Award. www.ramikhouri.com
Dr. Chris Fair is a senior research associate in the United States Institute for Peace's (USIP) Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, where she specializes in South Asian political and military affairs. Prior to joining USIP in April 2004, she was an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Much of her research has been concerned with security competition between India and Pakistan, Pakistan’s internal security, analyses of the causes of terrorism, and U.S. strategic relations with India and Pakistan. She has just returned from Afghanistan. www.usip.org
Dr. Benjamin Barber is Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland and a principal of the Democracy Collaborative. His new book is Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole, which warns of a totalitarian "ethos of induced childishness" that not only seeks to turn the young into aggressive consumers but to arrest the psychological development of adults as well, leading them to indulge in puerile and narcissistic materialism.
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Live From the Left Coast
12noon Pacific Time:
Daniel Levy is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Policy Initiative of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. He was the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative and directed policy planning and international efforts at the Geneva Campaign Headquarters in Tel Aviv. He was a member of the Israeli delegation to the Taba negotiations with the Palestinians in January 2001, and of the negotiating team for the "Oslo B" Agreement from May to September 1995, under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. www.newamerica.net
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Gaith Al-Omeri is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. Mr. al-Omari served in various senior positions within the Palestinian Authority, including Foreign Policy Advisor to the Palestinian President, Director of the International Relations Department in the Office of the Palestinian President, and Senior Advisor to former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. In these capacities, he provided advice on foreign policy -- especially vis-à-vis the United States and Israel -- and security. Mr. al-Omari is a lawyer by training and a graduate of Georgetown and Oxford universities. Prior to his involvement in the Middle East peace process, he taught international law in Jordan and was active in human rights advocacy. www.newamerica.net
Andrea Elliott is a reporter for The New York Times, who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. She has the cover story in today's New York Times Magazine, entitled "Where Boys Grow Up to be Jihadis," which explores why a tiny neighborhood in Tetouan, Morocco gives rise to an unusually high number of terrorists. Many of the Madrid train bombers and a number of would-be suicide bombers in Iraq are from the same quarter, known as Jamaa Mezuak. In writing this compelling investigative report, Andrea Elliott spent months on the trail of the elusive sources of radicalization. Through interviews with family members of the small-time drug dealer who led the fatal attack in Spain, mothers whose obedient sons had suddenly departed for Iraq and young men who had chosen to stay behind, Elliott provides new insights into the shadowy corners of the extremist mind. www.nytimes.com
Guests subject to change