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Guest: Jeffrey Rosen is President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate.  He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor at The Atlantic.  His latest book is, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. The post The Pursuit of Happiness, The Founders, and America Today appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Mohamad Jebara is a scriptural philologist and prominent exegetist.  A semanticist and historian of Semitic cultures, he has served as Chief Imam as well as headmaster of several Qur’anic and Arabic language academies.  He is the author of Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait, and his latest, The Life of the Qur’an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy. The post The Roots and Legacy of the Qur’an appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ibrahim Aoude is a Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.  He is the editor of the journal Arab Studies Quarterly (which was founded by Edward Said in 1979).  Professor Aoude is an expert on Hawai‘i Political Economy and Middle East politics. The post The Axis of Resistance: Palestine & West Asia Fight Against Imperialism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Peter Shambrook is an independent scholar and historical consultant to the Balfour Project, which works to advance equal rights for all in Palestine/Israel. He is the author of French Imperialism in Syria, 1927–1936, and his latest, Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939.   The post The Balfour Declaration: How the British Empire Broke Its promises to the People of Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Guest: Cat Bohannon is a researcher specialized in the evolution of narrative and cognition. She is the author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon. The post How The Female Body Drives Evolution appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Decolonial Studies at Arab Open University, Jordan. She is the author of the book Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity. She has published widely about resistance literature in several prestigious journals.     The post Palestinian Identity Through Culture and Exile  appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ruby Lal is a professor at Emory University, and the author of three books and numerous essays, op-eds, and literary pieces. She is the author of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan, and her latest, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan.   The post Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan. appeared first on KPFA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_zSUlv0K0 Guest: Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Bartov is a historian of the Holocaust and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on genocide.  He is the author of numerous books, including Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples (2011)  Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), and his latest, Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis. The post Linked Histories: The Holocaust & The Nakba appeared first on KPFA.

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version.  Gilgamesh is considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature.  Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia and his journey of self-discovery.  Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned. Get the Ancient Tales Library  $550.  Includes: – Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell $100  – The Iliad (new translation by Emily Wilson)  $200 – The Odyssey by Homer: Translated by Emily Wilson $100  – The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam translated by Juan Cole $160 – The Way of Chuang Tzu $100 – Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection$100  The post KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part IV) appeared first on KPFA.

Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version.  Gilgamesh is considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature.  Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia and his journey of self-discovery.  Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned. Get the Ancient Tales Library  $550.  Includes: – Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell $100  – The Iliad (new translation by Emily Wilson)  $200 – The Odyssey by Homer: Translated by Emily Wilson $100  – The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam translated by Juan Cole $160 – The Way of Chuang Tzu $100  – Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection $100    The post KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part III) appeared first on KPFA.