Kathleen Peratis Kathleen Peratis
Kathleen Peratis, longtime peace activist and co-chair of the Middle East Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch, has traveled to Israel at least twice a year for the past twenty years.
May 19, 2011
Erica Funkhouser Erica Funkhouser
Erica Funkhouser's most recent book of poems is Earthly (Houghton Mifflin).
May 18, 2011
Vénus Khoury-Ghata Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist. Her most recent book of poems in an English translation is Alphabets of Sands (Carcanet)
May 18, 2011
Julie Margetta Morgan Julie Margetta Morgan
May 17, 2011
People For the American Way People For the American Way
May 16, 2011
Peter Van Buren Peter Van Buren
Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq as a State Department Foreign Service Officer serving as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Now in Washington, he writes about Iraq and the Middle East at his blog, We Meant Well. His first book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, was published in 2011, and his latest book, Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent, has just been published.
May 16, 2011
Amy Hanauer Amy Hanauer
Amy Hanauer, executive director of Policy Matters Ohio (policymattersohio.org), works in Cleveland.
May 11, 2011
PBS PBS
PBS is a private, nonprofit corporation, founded in 1969, whose members are America’s public TV stations—noncommercial, educational licensees that operate nearly 360 PBS member stations and serve all 50 states, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa.
May 11, 2011
Rep. Walter Jones Rep. Walter Jones
Currently, serving his 9th term in Congress, Rep. Walter Jones is a Republican from North Carolina. He is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Financial Services Committee. He represents a district that includes Camp LeJeune and other military installations, and has concentrated on safeguarding the well being of our nation's veterans and our men and women on active duty.
May 10, 2011
Joshua E.S. Phillips Joshua E.S. Phillips
Joshua E.S. Phillips is a journalist, producer and author of None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture (Verso).
May 10, 2011