Earlier this week, there was a massive explosion at a shipping port in Beirut, leaving an estimated 150 dead, 80 missing, 5,000 injured, and 300,000 homeless. “To say we’re going through a catastrophe would be an understatement,” says Rania Masri, a university lecturer and political activist living in Beirut. Today, she joins us to put […]
Juan Cole on the Middle East
Juan Cole joins A Public Affair on this mini pledge drive edition to discuss issues in the Middle East and his upcoming lecture at UW, “Paganism and Muslim Peace-Building in the Mecca Period (610-622): What does the Qur’an Say?” Juan Ricardo Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate […]
