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E1: Who was Emir AbdelKader, the hero of humanity?
In the heart of Middle America, in the northeast corner of the State of Iowa, there’s a small town, a town so tiny it doesn’t even have a traffic light. In 1846, Timothy Davis founded that settlement, and named it Elkader, after an Algerian Sufi whose exploits had taken the Western world by storm. What...
S2E8: Palestine Pt 8 – 1400 OMG
The Madrid Talks was the first major attempt at discussion between Israel and the Arab Nations. It was headed by President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker III. A Palestinian-Jordanian Delegation joined the talks. The importance of this event is that it was the first major event where the Palestinian question was...
E2: Who was Emir AbdelKader, the hero of humanity?
Over three hundred years ago, a poorly-armed Algerian Muslim leader battled one of the best-equipped armies in the world – and against all odds, held his ground. For a while. The story of that struggle, and the legacy of that warrior, is one of the greatest stories in Islamic history. That warrior was of course...