Monday 15 January 2024
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
1/8: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
A Stranger in Your Own City is award-winning writer Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s vivid, shattering response. This is not a book about Iraq’s history or an inventory of the many Middle Eastern wars that have consumed the nation over the past several decades. This is the tale of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniacal leader who shaped the state in his own image; a people who watched a foreign army invade, topple that leader, demolish the state, and then invent a new country; who experienced the horror of having their home fragmented into a hundred different cities.
When the “Shock and Awe” campaign began in March 2003, Abdul-Ahad was an architect. Within months he would become a translator, then a fixer, then a reporter for The Guardian and elsewhere, chronicling the unbuilding of his centuries-old cosmopolitan city. Beginning at that moment and spanning twenty years, Abdul-Ahad’s book decenters the West and in its place focuses on everyday people, soldiers, mercenaries, citizens blown sideways through life by the war, and the proliferation of sectarian battles that continue to this day. Here is their Iraq, seen from the inside: the human cost of violence, the shifting allegiances, the generational change.
915-930
2/8: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
930-945
3/8: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
945-1000
4/8: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
5/8: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
1015-1030
6/8: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
1030-1045
7/8: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
1045-1100
8/8: A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 14, 2023 by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
1/8: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author)
Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Niño to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us.
1115-1130
2/8: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author)
1130-1145
3/8: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author)
1145-1200
4/8: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author)
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
5/8: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author)
1215-1230
6/8: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author)
1230-1245
7/8: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author)
1245-100 am
8/8: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author)