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times in the book possible aspire to and try to provide. after this, we ll gladly take your questions and look for your insights. we ll have a panel panel discussion about ten or 15 minutes after. just as a housekeeping note, please also phoned off. there will will be a book signing with the authors after at area one and no personal recordings of the session, please. now i d like to introduce the panel. christopher phillips is a senior lecturer in the international relations of the middle east and paid a mere university in london. he lived for several years in syria and often returns to the middle east for research. he is an associate fellow at chatham house middle east and north africa program. his friend for many publications and has appeared on the bbc, and cnn. he s just published a second book, the battle for syria, international rivalry in the new middle east which will be today. alla malek is a civil right lawyer born in baltimore. she s her child s attorney in ....
would ultimately learn that in fact, it was the sky as is actually represented in the actual universe. but, by age 11i knew enough about reading books from the library, books my parents bought me for my birthday that by age 11i had an answer, what do you want to be when you grow up. that pretty much shut them up. if you said i want to be a doctor, uncle or aunt betty is a doctor, you say astrophysicist and they walk away. to this day, i m a little bit scared for having not known a night sky until i saw one in the hayden planetarium. when i go to majestic sights and i look up at the night sky i say to myself, it reminds me of the hayden planet. [laughter] [applause] we will see you at the year end review in january, have a good night. here is a lock at some of the staff picks from politics and prose bookstores in washington, d.c. olivia lang, employers the so solitary lives, the great derangement and argues climate change is being ignored. pulitzer price winner in th ....
she s been our guest here at the los angeles times festival. thank you, c-span. thank you listener. now we have a another panel coming up, author panel, is on syria. beginning in just a second. after that, will be joined by corey field who writes about black republicans. then an author panel on author publishing. one of the people is lisa lucas, the the national director of the book foundation and will conclude our life today with a column on hugh hewitt, the radio talkshow host. that s coming up today. people schedule schedule is on book tv .com. now are going back inside to hear from the authors on syria. welcome to telling serious stories. my name is jeffrey and i m a cultural writer for the los angeles times. i ve been based in rome and berlin and is a cairo bureau chief. i ve written two novels, shadow man and thomas surgeons. thank you for being here. in the strange times, strong journalism with good book and challenging ideas are critical. that is what the lo ....
been included in the best american short stories. he s a former marine and served five tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan where he received the silver star, bronze star for valor in the purple heart. welcome everybody. [applause] when we think about the arab spring, it s this thing in 2011 that started this glorious fire and it seemed to stir into asia, 18 days of furious energy, and egypt that brought down libya and laid in. yemen and bahrain restless a little bit of saudi arabia and on and on. syria stands alone. 400,000 dead, millions of refugees and displaced and a tide of anguish that has seeped into europe and across the world. still he rules. mocking a broken revolution and defined the world that is left s band. we ll begin with elliott. in your novel, very powerful, there is a moment when one of your characters a mere is deciding and he s in turkey and deciding do i go back to syria and he doesn t want to. he describes he says he feels that there s no life fo ....
capitalal has changed its business and cites among other things ge capital s exit of the u.s. and consumer businesses and transformation of its funding model. you might recall during the financial crisis ge s finance arm almost took the company down and since that time, it has certainly changed that this or i should say last year undertaking an aggressive plan to reduce ge capital selling over half of its assets and, indeed, since that time, it sold about $166 billion or signed $166 billion worth of deal. now keep in mind, ge is one of four non-bank companies that have been given this systemically important financial rating. others include aig, met life and prudential and met life is involvedn a legal battle with the fed having, of course, received a favorable ruling earlier this year by a judge who said tfederal reserve or the government could not designate it as that. that means these companies are subject to federal reserve reover sight and enhanced capital rerooirmt ....