Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the translator of "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" and "Hoshruba."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Loren Coleman tells Jim Fleming why he's still looking for the next Lake Monster or Bigfoot or Thunderbird.
Kamran Pasha has written a novel called "Mother of the Believers." It's the story of Muhammad's third wife, Aisha, whom he married when she was very young.
Charles Monroe-Kane prepared a profile of singer/songwriter Neko Case, a country singer who's haunted by the American Dream.
"Ghostwalk" is an intellectual thriller set partly in Isaac Newton's time and concerning his interest in alchemy.
Patrick Hennessey tells Jim Fleming about his war service in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role that books played in his life as a soldier.
With the militant group ISIS threatning the stability of Iraq, we're thinking about sectarianism in the country. To get some context on the divide between Iraqi Sunnis, Shias and Kurds, we turn to David Rohde. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Beyond War: Reimagining America's Role and Ambitions in a New Middle East.
Phillip Pullman tells Steve Paulson that he thinks the process of how children develop into adult, moral people is the most interesting subject there is.
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