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BPR Interviews: Mei Fong
Mei Fong, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has reported on the societal impacts of China’s burgeoning economy. Her most recent book,...
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Apr 5, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, which...
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Mar 28, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Victor Fowler
Victor Fowler is a renowned Cuban writer of the Revolutionary Era. He has remained in Cuba and has published numerous essays and poetry...
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Mar 28, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Hagai El-Ad
Hagai El-Ad is an Israeli human rights activist and currently serves as the director of B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for...
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Mar 21, 20164 min read


Head to Head: Mark Dubowitz and Joseph Cirincione on the Iran Nuclear Agreement
The following are two separate interviews presenting contrasting opinions on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly known as...
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Jan 26, 201621 min read


BPR Interviews: John Sopko
John Sopko is Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. He has worked as a prosecutor in Ohio and served in the Senate...
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Jan 26, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Sarah Tobin
Dr. Sarah Tobin is an anthropologist at The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, with expertise in...
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Nov 19, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Azra Jafari
Azra Jafari served as the first female mayor in Afghanistan, after being appointed mayor of Nili by President Hamid Karzai in 2008. She...
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Nov 8, 20157 min read


BPR Interviews: Davis Guggenheim
Davis Guggenheim ‘86 is a documentary filmmaker. He is best known for “An Inconvenient Truth,” “It Might Get Loud,” and “Waiting...
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Nov 8, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Christine Forster
Christine Forster is a Sydney city councilor of the center-right Liberal Party of Australia, and the sister of Tony Abbott, the country’s...
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Nov 8, 20152 min read


BPR Interviews: Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and the author or editor of more than 20 books,...
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May 5, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Ivan Watson
Ivan Watson ‘97 is the senior foreign correspondent for CNN in Hong Kong. He has reported on a broad scope of major global events,...
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May 5, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Michael Salberg
Michael Salberg is the Director of International Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the world’s leading center for the...
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Mar 24, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Mauricio Santoro
Mauricio Santoro is a human rights advisor for Amnesty International in Brazil. He is also a political science professor at Cândido...
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Mar 24, 20154 min read


BPR Interview: Reza Aslan
Dr. Reza Aslan is the author of the New York Times Bestseller “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.” Currently a professor of...
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Dec 22, 20144 min read


BPR Interview: Maen Rashid Areikat
Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat currently serves as the chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization delegation to the United States....
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Nov 19, 20142 min read


BPR Interview: Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross has been a principal actor in US policy towards Israel and Palestine for decades. More recently, he was President Barack...
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Nov 19, 20142 min read


BPR Interview: Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is a professor emeritus in the department of linguistics and philosophy at MIT. In 2005, Chomsky topped a list released by...
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Nov 19, 20144 min read


BPR Interview: George Ayittey
BPR’s Benjamin Koatz spoke with George Ayittey, president of the Free Africa Foundation, associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research...
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Apr 7, 20144 min read


Professor Podcasts: Patricia Herlihy
Patricia Herlihy, professor emerita of history, is the Louise Doherty Wyant Professor at Emmanuel College. At Brown, she taught Russian...
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Mar 5, 20141 min read
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