Traditional word used in middle east for father and so since i born in his house thats what his children called in and we continued to call that as well. So they were both father figures to me and so i continued to call them abba and babba. Host what with the first eight or so years of your life like . Guest peaceful. You know, i had a really enjoyable childhood. I grew up any household where we had not just my siblings and my father but my extended family lived with us, but locals in antes and grandfather, my great grandmother was always around so it was a very loving environment. I was raised by educators and so education was huge part of our life and we all loved learning, and we were very curious kids. My grandfather and father encouraged discussions and debates and curiosity. I was known as the why did when i was little, and so i had a lot of intimate time with my grandfather and father because i was always around them asking questions. And as as a mother now i know w annoying tha
So the spec tack tailors search of isis was the direct result of the sectarian as an entity bean sectarianism, the civil war and the arab peace is the security vacuum that exists in other states and the deception that somehow the arab spring of the collective action could not really change the existing order. That is the leader of isis, who basically replaced zarqawi is basically his motto is that change would come not through the electoral box, but through the dialogue to come. Guest ing their opinion means a lot. So they have the ability to have their voices heard and acted upon in our great democracy, but they dont take advantage of it. So we have this really incredible democracy that gives the average person power and the average person does not vote. Its, i think its a shame that of all the developed democracies in the world, the United States is last in voter participation. That really bothers me because if we dont keep our eyes on the prize and if we dont understand how we have
We are so honored to have you today and particularly unfortunately given the tragic events in orlando your book, isis a history, is particularly relevant today. We want to have the conversation in the context of what is happening but also as your book lays out the history of isis and that is what we want to try to understand. Many people focus on the brutality but your book goes much further and much deeper than just talking about the violence. You talk about the ideology and the religious dynamic which is so important. Just as a starting point, i want to talk about the first chapter as a beginning. You mention many fact frors fore rise of isis. And we both known as middle easterners there have been many radical groups that have evolved over the years and isis is just one of the most violent. You mention the innovation invasion of iraq, the collapse of the arab states, the arab spring. And you mention how isis is able to provide services for sunni populations in the same way the Muslim
Prize winning reporters Elizabeth Mehren and Sacha Pfeiffer. They focus on the future of community and Public Service journalism, which they deem fundamental to service life. This was recorded in Brookline Booksmith in brookline, massachusetts. 2016 marks the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize in this years crisis will be announced on april 18. Thank you all for coming. This discussion of pulitzers gold behind the prize for Public Service journalism will from st. Louis. It is something we have to adjust to. I am roy harris, the author of the book, and i am honored to have two top new england journalists, a list of his marriage to my far right, and Sacha Pfeiffer to my immediate right. Part of our goal is to look at the powerful contributions of this centurylong body of work. It was 90 years when i started work on it. We are almost up to a century. The Pulitzer Prize started in 1917. We look at the powerful contributions of this work, this body of work, that is represented in the book, bu
Booksmiths author event series. My name is bonnie adderstrom and im the assistant events director here at Brookline Booksmith on behalf of all of us here at the store. Thank you so much for being here. We are grateful to be back in person and appreciate you choosing to spend your tuesday evening with us because of your support. We can continue to celebrate the important work of authors like beau. I do have just a few housekeeping items to mention before we get started. Please remember to keep your phones on silent for the duration of the event. This event is being recorded. Im sure you saw the cspan camera back there. We also do have a live stream over on this ipad here. The audience is not visible on the ipad, but if you dont want to be live on youtube try not to walk in front of it if you preordered a book or would like to purchase a copy or five. Those are available at that counter in the back there, but well be signing at the end of the night and lastly there is a q a at the end of