Today we talk with Manijeh Moradian about her book, This Flame within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States, which documents the formation of Iranian student activists in the US in the 1970s, and their impact on the Iranian revolution. This Flame Within is not...
Human Rights
“Beyond Kafkaesque”: Will Hassan Diab Receive Justice?
In 1980, the synagogue in Paris was bombed, killing four and injuring 40 others. Over four decades later, French authorities settled on one suspect, despite the fact that the perpetrators could have been a neo-Nazi group, which had bombed a Jewish site on that same...
Silencing Human Rights Advocates, and Speaking Back: Interview with Jim Cavallaro and Omar Shakir
Recently the US State Department withdrew its nomination of eminent international human rights scholar Jim Cavallaro, solely on the basis of some tweets in which he called out Israeli apartheid and the undue influence of AIPAC (America-Israel Public Affairs...
Interview with Noted Public Intellectual Richard Falk
In today's show I speak with Richard Falk about his recent autobiography—Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim. Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University (1961-2001) and Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law,...
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