Folks, thank you for making the effort to get mere on this snow day in washington. Its not really a snow day, but half an inch on the ground. That qualifies as a snow day here in washington. Needless to say, i dont think any of us expected that here in the first week of 2018 the iran story we would be focused on would be this story, a story of protests, domestic unrest, really, in the sort of biggest demonstrations weve seen since 2009. On the contrary, i think that what everybody expected to be talking about this week and next week was the question of sanctions, waivers, decertification of the jcpoa and efforts in congress to amend the legislation. And that obviously, all still is in play, but its now been cast in i think a quite different light by whats happening inside iran. And so, we have convened a panel of our experts to discuss this issue, the protests in iran and their implications for not just the region, not just iran, but also for u. S. Policy. From a lot of different angle
Is the secret. Persistence. Brian how do you pick your books . Laurence it is a stupid thing to do. I should choose an area and keep at it, but i wanted to do something much different. Experience different lives. When you write a nonfiction book, you are thinking back in somebodys life. I want to piggyback on as many lives as i can. Brian of the 15 books, which one sold the most . Laurence the kennedy women, by a longshot. The number two New York Times bestseller. It was my agents idea. A book about a multigenerational book about women. Nobody had ever written a multigenerational book about women. So, to put women at the forefront just totally changed things. Brian what about the kennedy women do you most remember and what did the audience want to hear when you talk to them . Laurence it was a book i suggested that you do not have to be a woman to love the kennedy women. Because it was a book read by women. I mean, women of that generation women read that book and they , just loved tha
Carla power, who talks about the misconceptions westerners have about islam. It is a topic she writes about in if the oceans work ink. From the Commonwealth Club of california, this is an hour and 10 minutes. Jonathan my mic is on. That is an auspicious start. Good evening. Welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where you are in the know. We are online at commonwealthclub. Org. I am jonathan curiel, your moderator for todays program, cold bridging islam and the west. I want to introduce our esteemed speaker, carla power. Those of you who know carla know she is a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is a journalist specializing in muslim societies and the author of if the oceans were ink an unlikely friendship and journey to the heart of koran, a result of spending a year with Sheikh Mohammed akram nadwi. It offers a look into the muslim world that is often ignored by our news media and explores the many complexities of one of the worlds most misunderstood r
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Is incarceration of those that cannot pay the fines meaning those people are not being saved the opportunity to provide a livelihood which is inconsistent with chapter 20. There are 63 chapters in the magna carta or and if we wanted to try the patience of the audience we would walk through all 63 of them and William Hubbard would find a Supreme Court case relevant to each when of those. We dont have time. Let me make one last observation. What about the copies of the magna carter . Itself the document first came ago, 1215. 0 years there are 17 extent copies of a. E magna carter cart there are four copies of the original charter. Libraryin the british and one is at the lincoln cathedral and one at the cells very cathedral. Anothern australia and is in the National Archives in washington. Ross perot heard that a family in england owned a copy of the 1297 charter and he had pretty much Everything Else so he decided he could use a copy of so he sent ata lawyer over to bargain and purchase