Moderation and Militancy in Islam
These interviews were made possible by support from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley.
Khaled Ahmed; Consulting Editor, The Friday Times, Lahore,
Pakistan: "Pakistan and Islamic
Fundamentalism," 2/19/02
video
Tariq Ali; Editor, New Left Review: "Islam,
Empire, and the Left" 5/8/03
video
Daniel Benjamin, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic
and International Studies: "National
Security in an Age of Sacred Terror," 2/6/06
video
Lakhdar Brahimi; UN Special Envoy: "Negotiating," 4/5/05
video
Juan Cole; Professor of History, University of Michigan: "The
Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy" 10/20/05
video
Steve Coll; Associate Editor, The Washington Post: "The
Rise of Al Qaeda ," 3/15/05
video
Pamela Constable; Foreign
Correspondent, Washington Post: ”Afghanistan
and Pakistan,” 04/03/08
video (2008)
Steven A. Cook; Douglas
Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "The
Implications of Military Rule for Democratization in the Middle East,” 1/31/08
video (2008)
Shirin Ebadi; 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: "The
Struggle for Human Rights in Iran," 5/10/06
video
John L. Esposito; University Professor of Religion and
International Affairs, Georgetown University: "Islam
and the West," 3/13/03
video
Robert Fisk; Middle
East Correspondent, The Independent: "'Foreign
Correspondent' in the Middle East," 12/14/06
video
Akbar Ganji; Journalist and Human Rights Activist: "Islam
and Democracy," 8/10/06
video
Fawaz
A. Gerges; Christian
A. Johnson Chair in Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah Lawrence College:
"Inside
Muslim Militancy,” 8/29/2007
video
Ira Lapidus; Professor Emeritus of History, UC Berkeley: "Islamic
Societies," 1/14/03
video
Vali Nasr; Professor of Political Science, University
of San Diego: "Islam and the State" 10/3/02
video
Vitaly Naumkin; President, International Center for Strategic
and Political Studies, Moscow: "Islam
and State Power in the Middle East and Central Asia" 2/19/03
video
Daniel Pipes; Director, Middle East Forum: "Militant
Islam," 2/10/04
video
Ahmed Rashid; Author and Journalist: "The
Rise of Militant Islam," 3/26/02
video
Olivier Roy; Senior Researcher, Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique, Paris: "The
Political Imagination of Islam," 4/16/02; and "Globalization
and Islam," 1/25/07
video (2002)
Karim
Sadjadpour;
Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "Iran:
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy" 10/8/07
video
Michael
Scheuer; Former Chief of the CIA bin Laden unit: "America
and Islam After Iraq,” 3/12/08
video (2008)
Peter
Dale Scott;
Professor Emeritus of English, UC Berkeley: "Wealth,
Empire, and the Future of America," 8/8/07
video
Lawrence
Wright; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: "Al
Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," 11/13/06
video
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