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What next in Libya?

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with political science professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago about what is next in Libya. Pape supported the NATO intervention as a humanitarian mission, not as a tool for imposing regime change in Libya. Download MP3

Yemen

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On this week’s history podcast a look at the archaeology and history of Yemen. First we hear from University of Chicago archaeologist McGuire Gibson. He’s worked in Yemen since the 1970′s. Then Bernard Haykel, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, fills us in on Yemen’s recent history. Thomas Kuehn of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver tells us about Yemen under the Ottomans and how it might be relevant today. Among other things these folks emphasize Yemen’s strategic location and geography, its stunning beauty and its continuous and unbroken history going way back.