[applause] good evening everybody, i am bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife and on behalf of everybody here, welcome and thank you for coming. Its really great to welcome back to the store Rashid Khalidi who is among the worlds foremost scholars on palestinian identity and nationalism. Hes been a professor of arab studies at Columbia University now for 17 years and before that taught at the university of chicago for a decade and ahalf. He is also editor of the journal of palestine studies, the author of sevenprevious books on the middle east. His newest work , the hundred years war on palestine covers some aspects of palestinian history that he has written about before butthis is a more personal book and a more provocative one. Personal because rashid merges scholarship with personal stories drawn from generations of his own family members who were present at some key events and provocative because he offers a very different take on the Israeli Palestinian
speech. i hope that we find a mission to mars. what is nasa s response? they weren t happy i was writing this book if this was a guy from the inside. they didn t want me to make him into a hero, although thursday things. i feel like they haven t responded since the book came out. when people do actually read the book, they re going to love it because i think it looks now for very cool. i think they will like it, but i thought they spoke would like a social network and eventually they did come around to his bn. but you know, it is not a hit job on nasa. let s do one last question in them will call it an evening. yes, ma am, right in the middle. [inaudible] he took the fall for them and he said it was entirely forcing him to do appear to fill him him in this other guy were involved in finding the guy went to jail. they got probation and never spoke to him again. but with that. you know, they ve known each other three weeks. it was his quick love. when she was in the cou
shoving and throwing tickets at each other and there was one clerk that was a small body and so he hired a bunch of people behind him whose entire job was to hold him to the trading floor so this is so cool that is what made me write rigged and we are working on that movie as well with summit i think so we will see if that gets going. yes, ma am. i just want to actually read something funny to you based on the conversation about recreating a dialogue. sure. this is tonight s program. ben mezrich porter for thousands of pages of court records, fpi transcripts and documents and has interviewed most of the participants in the crime to reconstruct the ocean s eleven style highest the story of genius, love and duplicity. already, the mall for has been snatched up by hollywood to create film. [laughter] yeah, that happens. so i think yeah, people use the word novel interchangeably now. it will always be a controversy but most people are coming around to this form of new
coming up next booktv present after words, an hourlong program where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. knipling economist dambisa moyo discusses her latest book held the west was lost 50 years of economic folly and the stark choices that lie ahead. the best-selling author argues that called economic decisions made by western governments have resulted in the scales of economic growth being tipped in favor of what she calls the emerging world. she talks with libertarian economist dan mitchell. my name is dan mitchell with the cato institute. we are here to talk with dambisa moyo, a best-selling author about her new book, how the west was lost. welcome to the program. you re basic premise, the west is being overtaken by the east. guest: it s interesting because when this bizarre time in society was almost obsessed with what s going on in the east and in china and other places and of course it is incredibly fascinating but my guess about the errors that have been