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Middle east. Whoever gave a thought to kurds, for example. Who. But this is as i said, we used to know a heck of a lot about south africa. Now that knowledge has faded. And now we are experts or semi experts on the middle east and about what region next. He knows. I think, you know, what youre saying, the intimation. The first answer to your question is stop reading the New York Times. [laughter] much more than it used 210 or even my commentary. There is a sort of classic effort to say what is i...

Translates materials in the middle east to lead a group that lets you know what is being said what is on television, what the serbians are, what School Curricula are, what Entertainment Television shows or and they are shining a light on the middle east. And we dont have to rely now on just a few sources or just a few outlets. There are plenty of people whove been struck by curiosity about the middle east. Its all because of necessity. We didnt ask for it. It used to be open to very few people t...

One piece of good news is that sense september 11th a lot of people have become very, very interested in the middle east, and they never were before. There were forced to become interested in the middle east. Not long ago i asked professor lewis was born in 1916, very, very few people in the west when he was. Did you ever think that your field would become so important there would be such interest in your field. He said, no, never. And that is good news, that there are lots of people who know ab...

From all 11 journalists that resonated with you as regards to why they left the profession state was i think most of them if not all of them said basically i wanted to do more. Would you ever come back to journalism . Im not sure. I love writing. I love writing this book. I think its more likely i would do another book. If youre a former journalist or if youre interested in the profession, celia wexler is the author of out of the news. Thanks so much. Thank you. And now from a conference on the ...

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