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It's a stormy summer afternoon in Columbia, Missouri, when the writer Ibtisam Barakat arrives at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute for a book group…
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Segment 1: A Lebanese dinner at the Kemper Museum and a new tortilleria in the East Bottoms.We talk with a chef whose Midwestern childhood and Lebanese…
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Bonnie Bolling remembers when she first stepped on Middle Eastern soil. A writer, Bolling was in an airport in Dubai and the call to prayer came over the…
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For centuries, refugees from all over the world have taken to the seas to escape violence and persecution in their homelands. Today, the author of a…
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The similarities between Native American and Middle Eastern cultures, as told by poets in a new anthology that was published here. Then, two of the…
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In this encore presentation: A visit to Nazareth Sweets, which is in a part of Lenexa that's becoming a "Middle Eastern strip," and a culinary instructor…
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Kansas City’s BkMk Press has a new collection of poetry by Native American writers about the Middle East.The book's title — The World Is One Place: Native…
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"'In America,' he told me, 'In America, we sell hamburgers.'"But Nabil Haddad didn't have a clue what a hamburger was. It was 1958, and Haddad was looking…
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A visit to Nazareth Sweets, which is in a part of Lenexa that's becoming a "Middle Eastern strip," and a culinary instructor talks about a beloved Syrian…
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has endured for decades, but former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell believes a nonviolent resolution is still possible. Then,…
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David Greene has reported on everything from the White House to the Arab Spring to post-Soviet Russia. It all started with his high school newspaper and a…
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There is more to the relationship between the U.S. and Israel than just political gesturing. American diplomat and author Dennis Ross explains how…