Was all. The pressure is on and not least for disney and director j. J. Abrams has been brought back to the Star Wars Franchise after the last episode by a different director after a lot of fans disappointed. Episode 9 focuses particularly on the current history between its central characters ray and her buddies the resistance pilot podium iran and stormtrooper femme for cast and fans its about more than just one movie its the end of a saga this is the longest one but its crazy because it feels like christmas in a time machine and travel back to when they clashed. Over bonser 42 years and 8 episodes later can the rise of skywalker live up to fans expectations illusions like to be careful on the way out director. J. J. Abrams certainly seems to think it can. If youre a kid watching this 100 years from now 500 years from now. You see this inevitability the story concluded in a way to feel those thrilling. Shocking and funny and emotional and satisfy the final film reunites new cast and o
One the target at the president s campaign rally. And tunis he is president ial election heads toward a runoff there passing a law professor against a jailed the media mogul. Now a possible political setback for israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu early exit polls from the countrys Election Rerun have put the longtime leaders future in doubt he was hoping to secure a 5th term centrist benny gantz may derail those plans netanyahu was forced to call the rerun when he failed to form a Coalition Government following aprils voters hes been trying to appeal to right wing voters by promising to annex parts of the occupied west bank while hes neck and neck with Opposition Leader benny gantz the channel 12 preliminary exit poll gives netanyahu still a crude party 33. 00 seats and dances blue unwise alliance at 34. 00 now both are still well short of the 61 seats needed for a majority the minority Arab Alliance the socalled joint list is set to come in 3rd with 11 seats and predicted to be
Thank you, everyone for coming today, thrilled to be with these wonderful writers. We will be talking about the relationship between the United States and china and thinking about that under the paradigm of a second cold war whether thats helpful or not helpful way of looking at that relationship. Let me tell you about the people up here. The author of the book we need new stories, ece temelkuran is a writer, a turkish novelist and journalist and grateful to have her here. Mohsin hamid is a novelist and author of many books. Its wonderful to have him here. And anne appelbaum, historian of the soviet union and the cold war, and her books include iron curtain, great to have you here. When we are done, you should get notecards at some point today and if you have any questions, pass them to the end of the island we will read those in the last halfhour of the event. I want to start with you, mohsin hamid. What do you think of this idea of a second cold war with china and specifically how it
Thank you everyone for coming today. Im thrilled to be with all these wonderful writers. We are going to be talking about the relationship between the United States and china. Thinking about that under the paradigm of a second cold war whether thats helpful or not helpful way of looking at that relationship. Let me tell you briefly about the people appear. A coldness guardian and author of the book we need new stories its great to have her here. It is also a writer, a turkish novelist and journalist its wonderful to have her here. Pakistani novelist the author of many books exit west of the fundamentalist, its wonderful to have them here. And a historian of the soviet union and the cold war. And a writer at the atlantic. Her books include gulags and iron curtain. Its great to have you here. And when we are done you should get in note cards at some point today, some point in the next active questions you can pass on to the end of the aisle. We will read those for the next halfhour of th
One of our students. She is in many respects a quintessential representative of the almost 500 students who come from more than 70 countries to enroll in are bachelors in Foreign Service program. The discussion underway this week, the discussions are urgently needed because the divisions we are witnessing globally are more pronounced and disconcerting than at any period in my lifetime. We are beset by wars and bear witness to unspeakable atrocities. Democratic principles and institutions including many elite universities in this country are on the receiving end of in sustained of sustained attacks. We know that the complex problems in humanity cannot and will be will not be solved by any single state actor. Yet too many of the people who we need to come to the table often do not show up or if they do, they talked down to others or at others. Ironically, at the same time when not enough people are sincerely communicating, we live in a world burying beneath an avalanche of words. Words t