Today. We are missing one panelist who got sick last night and cannot make it, unfortunately. We are going to go in the order that we are sitting and 10 minutes each for a short presentation. This is a roundtable, and then we open up to discussion with you guys and the four of us. Ok. Hi, everybody. Can you hear me . Like this . Ok. Not in a creepy way . Like this . Better . Ok. I want to i want to thank everybody coming today. Im currently working on a book manuscript about egypt, the modern history of egypt. And it operates from a premise that the egyptian people are a people that protest. And that has been well documented over since the early 19th century. We have this notion of continuity in student protests over the long history of egypts modern history. However, the reason for protests often is different. And so, what i hope to talk about today is the student and worker protests of 1968, and really what i am interested in in egypt is the conservative in 1967. H takes hold a lot o
Trying to make this a broader human story. This one is titled floating lantern. We participate in the evening of august 6 and the floating lantern ceremony. So many of the people jumped in the river to try to escape the flames or cool their bodies that have been badly burned. Many of them died. These descriptions of the river that night, a sea of floating corpses. What people did to commemorate they hold the lantern ceremony every year. It is no longer restricted to the families of the victims. You make a paper lantern, put a candle inside and on the lantern, you write a message and you go down and take your turn and put your floating lantern into the water. It is very beautiful and night. At night. When i went, yoyo ma was playing. This is a depiction of the lanterns floating in the river. We continue now with our look back at the august 1945 atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, japan. Recently come in American History tv was at the organization of american historians annual mee
And cspan. Org history for more. Youre watching American History tv. All weekend every weekend on cspan3. Announcer recently, american citizens in hiroshima and nagasaki were discussed. Naoko wake, you are an assistant professor at issue in state university. Tell us about your research on People Living in japan in 1945. Naoko sure, i wanted to discuss people born in the United States for those born elsewhere but who were living in hiroshima in 1945 when the bomb was dropped on hiroshima and not a sake. Those numbers arent huge, that substantial. There were somewhere between 20,00030,000 asianamericans but multiple generations as well who were in japan, actually i should say in arusha. In hiroshima. Actually, it was hiroshima prefecture, and they had moved there before world war ii started, so through it 1918 through the 1930s. So between 20,00030 thousand people, there were about 3000 people japanese americans, who survived the bomb in hiroshima. And then they came to america beginning
At the United States Naval Academy in annapolis, and served as senior fellow at the council on Foreign Relations in new york. A contributor to such publications as the new york times, the washington post, wall , newsweek,nal, time the london observer. Professor mandelbaum served for 23 years as the associate director of the Aspen Institute congressional project on American Relations with the former communist world. He serves on the board of advisors also the Washington Institute for near east Foreign Policy near east policy. A washingtonbased organization sponsoring research and public discussion on american policy towards the middle east. Born in 1946, professor mandelbaum is a graduate of yale college. He earned his masters degree at Kings College cambridge university, and his doctorate at harvard university. Professor mandelbaum is the or coauthor of numerous articles and essays, and 15 books, the nuclear question, the United States and 1976,r weapons 1946 to and the Nuclear Revolut
Democracy in the wake of the just mean revolution of 2011. The quartet was formed in summer of 2013 when the democrat process was in danger of collapsing because of assassinations and widespread social unrest. It established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. It was thus instrumental in enabling tunisia in the space of a few years to establish a constitutional system of government, guarantying fundamental rights for the entire population, irrespective of gender, political conviction or religious belief. The National Dialog quartet has comprised four key organizations says the tunisia Civil Society, the tunisia general labor union, the tunisia consideration of industry, trade and handy crafts, the Tunisia Human Rights League and the tunisia order of lawyers. These organizations represent different sectors and values in the tunisia society, working lives and welfare, principles of rule of law and human rights. On this basi