Any suggestions for a good person to talk on the radio about the uprisings across the Middle East?
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I would suggest interviewing Stephen Zunes, He writes for Foreign Policy In Focus and teaches at U of San Francisco.
By: john buell on January 26, 2011
at 11:04 am
would love to hear you chat with W. Patrick Lang. No idea if he’d do it, though.
By: E on January 26, 2011
at 11:05 am
Rashid Khalidi?
Juan Cole?
By: Ben on January 26, 2011
at 11:15 am
How about Robert Fisk?
By: David Smith on January 26, 2011
at 11:17 am
Tariq Ali
By: Burnis Tuck on January 26, 2011
at 11:26 am
Doug,
I’m getting the best info on the Tunisia (and possibly Egypt) situation from The Moor Next Door and Issandr El Amrani at the Arabist.Net. Their blogs are definitely worth following and you might be able to score an interview with one of them.
By: Charles D on January 26, 2011
at 11:36 am
By far the best and most informed is As’ad AbuKhalil (aabukhalil@csustan.edu), The Angry Arab
By: Regan Boychuk on January 26, 2011
at 12:04 pm
Stephen R. Shalom?
By: jschulman on January 26, 2011
at 12:39 pm
Joel Beinin at Stanford.
By: Steve diamond on January 26, 2011
at 12:49 pm
The Angry Arab himself! As’ad AbuKhalil… http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
By: Stephen on January 26, 2011
at 1:40 pm
I second Joel Beinin and Asad Abu-Khalil.
Or you could invite liberal Egytian human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim and grill him a bit.
By: Egyptian on January 26, 2011
at 2:11 pm
Samir Amin?
By: T. Kiefer on January 26, 2011
at 2:21 pm
Someone on LBO-talk recommended Gilbert Achcar, and I’ll second that.
By: ld on January 26, 2011
at 5:01 pm
Juan Cole
By: jim nichols on January 26, 2011
at 6:29 pm
Patrick Cockburn had some interesting thoughts in The Independent recently.
By: TA on January 26, 2011
at 7:59 pm
You may also want to publicize Jack Shenker’s audio from Egypt (12min+) from The Guardian. After this journalist is released from his Cairo cell, maybe he’d be good to interview…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/26/egypt-protests
By: Stephen on January 27, 2011
at 9:23 am
Alastair Crooke of the Conflicts Forum (http://conflictsforum.org).
Augustus Norton (especially on intricacies of Lebanese politics, strategy & goals of Hezbollah etc — blogs at http://bostonuniversity.blogspot.com/)
Helena Cobban — just heard her on WBAI’s “Beyond the Pale” — very informative website at http://justworldnews.org/
By: Jeffery Ewener on January 27, 2011
at 10:48 am
I think it would be good to have a woman–it was remarkable to see the number of women on the streets during the protest. See also:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/27/133248219/in-tunisia-women-play-equal-role-in-revolution
And definitely play Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia” during the segues!
By: Mikey on January 27, 2011
at 11:16 am
Dyab Abou Jahjah
Check out his book list here:
http://www.aboujahjah.com/?page_id=14
He’s head of the Arab European League, so not a “disinterested” academic in the strict sense. You’d want to check out the AEL first – they mostly seem to be pressing for better treatment/recognition of Muslim communities in Europe (especially in Belgium, where he’s based). But I don’t think it precludes him from having useful things to say on the unrest in some Arab countries.
By: Andrew on January 27, 2011
at 12:06 pm
I would have added Finkelstein but I think he’s mostly focused on Israel/Palestine.
By: Andrew on January 27, 2011
at 12:07 pm
3 women and a man…..
(women)
Nawal al-Saadawi: doctor, feminist, political prisoner, writer and member of Egyptian Parliment
Salwa Bakr – writer
Ahdaf Soueif – writer
(man)
Sonallah Ibrahim “Zaat” contemp satire on Egyptian life
By: Lisa Monti on January 27, 2011
at 12:44 pm
Has anyone mentioned Tariq Ramadan?
http://www.tariqramadan.com/The-Second-Proposition.html
By: Andrew on January 27, 2011
at 2:25 pm
Here’s something to ponder…
The Arabs face mortal threats from their comprador dictatorships – not to mention racist Israel,… and still they protest and riot and threaten to bring down the regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, and now Yemen.
Meanwhile, in the US, the president announces that Americans need to get competitive and work harder, like the horse in Animal Farm… and he supports “clean energy” like nuclear, “clean” coal, and natural gas… better test those school kids to death, and privatize the schools while we’re at it to teach those lazy union teachers a lesson… and today the deceitful headlines of the capitalist media declare: “Social Security posting $600B deficit over 10years” and “Paul Ryan: Budget Cutter”… this vile display by our owner-operators is followed by the American people awaiting Sarah Palin’s tweets about President Reagan the Fifth.
The Arabs vs the Americans? There can’t be a clash of civilizations when Americans don’t have one. Bring Samuel P. Huntington onto your show… and just have a laugh track play every time he tries to speak.
By: Stephen on January 27, 2011
at 4:01 pm
Abdel Bari Atwan – London-based commentator on Arab affairs
http://www.abdelbariatwan.com/
By: Andrew on January 28, 2011
at 10:57 am
Sam Huntington would not be a good guest. Too much dead air.
By: Greg on January 28, 2011
at 6:13 pm
“Sam Huntington would not be a good guest. Too much dead air.”
LOL. All the better.
By: Stephen on January 31, 2011
at 2:06 pm
I just read a smart, realistic assessment by Augustus Norton in Boston Unvty
http://bostonuniversity.blogspot.com/2011/01/egypt-sentiments-vs-advice.html
By: Reed Talman on February 1, 2011
at 11:16 am
Incidentally, it wasn’t Huntington who coined the expression ‘Clash of Civilizations’, but his fellow hate-monger from the manicured groves of academia, Bernard Lewis. Lewis, who was Dick Cheney’s guide on matters Islamic, is still peddling this thesis and trying to turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy as he stokes fears about the imminent “Fall of Europe to Islam”.
By: sk on February 2, 2011
at 3:30 pm