On September 11 2001, two planes flew into the Twin Tower buildings in New York in a coordinated attack by terrorist group Al-Qaeda. The attack was a turning point in the relationship of the United States with the Middle East. Twenty years on, the impacts of the national and foreign policy can still be felt from border and immigration control to the recent fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban. Central News reporter Olivia Nunes-Malek interviews Nancy Schneider from the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Professor Michael Humphrey, expert in Islam perceptions in the West and Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh, research professor of Middle East & Central Asian Politics. 

Presented by Olivia Nunes-Malek, edited by Soofia Tariq. 

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