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Title: Fresh Air, Journalists Riccardo Orizio and Joyce Davis

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

In this edition of Fresh Air, Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio on disposed dictators and journalist Joyce Davis on the views of martyrdom among extremists in the Middle East on this edition of Fresh Air. Riccardo Orizio is the author of the book Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators. He interviewed deposed dictators who haven't apologized for their crimes and weren't rehabilitated. They were Uganda's Idi Amin, Haiti's "Baby Doc" Duvalier, and Ethiopia's Haile Mengistu and others. Then, Joyce Davis is deputy foreign editor at Knight Ridder newspapers and is the former Middle East editor at NPR. She's the author of the new book, Martyrs: Innocence, Vengenance and Despair in the Middle East. Davis conducted interviews with Islamic scholars to try to understand the teachings about martyrdom and how those teachings had been twisted by extremists. She also conducted interviews in the Middle East with the families of martyrs and of victims. (Broadcast Date: June 3, 2003)

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