



Harry Kreisler is executive producer and host of the series, which is produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California - Berkeley. Conceived in 1982 by Mr. Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times, Conversations with History includes over 450 interviews.
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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

Tariq Ali; Editor, New
Left Review: "Islam, Empire,
and the Left," 5/8/03; "Pakistan," 10/3/08
Talal Asad;
Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York: "Thinking About Religion, Secularism and Politics," 10/2/08
Daniel Benjamin, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International
Studies: "National Security
in an Age of Sacred Terror," 2/6/06
Lakhdar Brahimi; UN Special Envoy: "Negotiating," 4/5/05
Jocelyne Cesari;
Associate, Middle East Center, Harvard University: "Islam in the West," 12/04/08
Juan Cole; Professor of History, University of Michigan: "The
Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy" 10/20/05
Steve Coll; Associate Editor, The Washington
Post: "The Rise of al Qaeda," 3/15/05
Pamela Constable; Foreign
Correspondent, The Washington Post: "Afghanistan
and Pakistan," 04/03/08
Steven A. Cook; Douglas
Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "The
Implications of Military Rule for Democratization in the Middle East,” 1/31/08
Shirin Ebadi; 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: "The
Struggle for Human Rights in Iran," 5/10/06

John L. Esposito; University Professor of Religion and International Affairs,
Georgetown University: "Islam
and the West," 3/13/03
Robert Fisk; Middle
East Correspondent, The Independent: "'Foreign
Correspondent' in the Middle East," 12/14/06

Akbar Ganji; Journalist and Human Rights Activist: "Islam
and Democracy," 8/10/06

Fawaz
A. Gerges; Christian
A. Johnson Chair in Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah Lawrence College:
"Inside
Muslim Militancy,” 8/29/2007

Roya Hakakian;
Author: "Identity, Freedom and Revolution," 03/04/09
Ira Lapidus; Professor Emeritus of History, UC Berkeley: "Islamic
Societies," 1/14/03
Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (2003-2005, Iraq 2005-2007, and the United Nations(2007-2008): "Responding to Strategic Challenges Post 9-11," 05/12/09
Vali Nasr;
Professor of Political Science, University of San Diego: "Islam
and the State" 10/3/02
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

Daniel Pipes; Director, Middle East Forum: "Militant
Islam," 2/10/04

Ahmed Rashid;Author and Journalist: "The
Rise of Militant Islam," 3/26/02; and, "Descent into Chaos," 6/12/08
(2002) (2008)
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
(2002) (2007)
Karim
Sadjadpour;
Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "Iran:
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy" 10/8/07
Michael
Scheuer; Former Chief of the CIA bin Laden unit: "America
and Islam After Iraq,” 3/12/08
Peter
Dale Scott;
Professor Emeritus of English, UC Berkeley: "Wealth,
Empire, and the Future of America," 8/8/07

Lawrence
Wright; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: "Al
Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," 11/13/06

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