The Middle East is the ground zero of human conflict. Here the competing claims of three of the world’s great religions – Christianity, Judaism and Islam –collide in an unforgiving landscape, a triple junction of tragedy and trouble. Yet it hasn’t always been so – and need not be so forever. Against all odds, peace came to Northern Ireland and apartheid was dismantled in South Africa. Nirvana didn’t follow, but these were still impressive accomplishments. What would it take to unravel this Gordian knot? Can Barack Obama succeed in re-starting a process that has defeated so many other peacemakers? This program features candid conversations with Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, independent analysts and professional mediators, all intent on finding ways to make the Holy Land whole again.
This program was funded by The Ford Foundation.
Amal Jadou, Deputy chief of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) Mission, Washington, D.C.
Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Affairs
Rami Khouri, Director, Isaam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut
Moty Cristal, Founder and CEO, Nest Consulting, Negotiation Strategies
Joshua Weiss, Managing Director, The Abraham Path Initiative; Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Global Negotiation Initiative, Harvard Negotiation Project
(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Gregg McVicar
Associate Producers: Naihma Deady, Matt Fidler
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Remote Engineers: Sam Greenspan, Dave Goodman
Music in this program: Open - “Forever Unanswered” - Eccodek - White Swan; “A United Earth I” -
Alan Stivell and Youssou N’Dour - Putumayo World Music; “Black Beauty” - Eccodek - White Swan;
“Iran” - Shohreh - Taraneh; “Kereshme, Kutsh-Bagh, Hosseini, Hazin” - Hassan Kassai - Sunset-France; “Ibn el Balad” - Ensemble musical de Palestine - AV Records.
Duration: 55:00 minutes
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