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Monday October 24, 2005

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Week of October 24, 2005

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10:00Syria

Guest host: Andrea Seabrook of NPR News

A U.N. report implicates top Syrian and Lebanese officials in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. We'll talk about some of the political repercussions for Syria, its neighbors and the U.S.

Guests

Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland and author of "The Stakes: America and the Middle East" (Westview Press)

David Lesch, professor of Middle East history, Trinity University, Texas, and author of "The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria" (Yale University Press)

Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief for Al-Arabiya TV, and Washington correspondent for "An-Nahar"

11:00Deborah Larsen: "The Tulip and the Pope" (Knopf)

Guest host: Andrea Seabrook of NPR News

In 1960, author Deborah Larsen followed her calling to be a nun and entered the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In a new memoir she describes her life there, and how the prayer, discipline, and study--and the people she met--drew her back to the outside world.

Guests

Deborah Larsen, author of "The White" and "Stitching Porcelain."

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