This episode revisits the Western media's love affair with a Turkish strongman who didn't offend the fickle tastes of the Anglo-American foreign policy elite. In 1958, CBS produced a documentary narrated by Walter Cronkite titled "The Incredible Turk" about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. I have included the entire documentary (lightly edited for time) and a short preamble from contemporary commentators who long for the return of our man in Ankara.

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In April 1964, Malcolm X traveled to Saudi Arabia to complete the Hajj. Upon his return, he gave a press conference and explained what lessons his experiences abroad had taught him about the problems facing African-Americans.

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In April 1964, Malcolm X traveled to Saudi Arabia to complete the Hajj. Upon his return, he gave a press conference and explained what lessons his experiences abroad had taught him about the problems facing African-Americans. 

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Recorded at the University of Colorado, Boulder on October 12, 1998, Eqbal Ahmad speaks about the dangers and dishonesty of the rhetoric of terrorism.

For more on Ahmad's remarkable life:

https://www.hampshire.edu/critical-social-inquiry/biography-of-eqbal-ahmad

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Recorded at the University of Colorado, Boulder on October 12, 1998, Eqbal Ahmad speaks about the dangers and dishonesty of the rhetoric  of terrorism.

For more on Ahmad's remarkable life:

https://www.hampshire.edu/critical-social-inquiry/biography-of-eqbal-ahmad

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Edward Said on his close and intimate relationship with revolutionary political scientist and activist Eqbal Ahmad.

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Edward Said on his close and intimate relationship with revolutionary political scientist and activist Eqbal Ahmad.

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Emran Feroz is an Austro-Afghan journalist and author based in Stuttgart. He is the author "Tod per Knopfdruck" [Death at the Push of a Button] published by Westend in Oct 2017. His work has appeared with The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Hindu, Alternet and several other media outlets. He is also a regular contributor to German-language newspapers and magazines.

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Emran Feroz is an Austro-Afghan journalist and author based in Berlin. He is the author "Tod per Knopfdruck" [Death at the Push of a Button] (Westend, Oct 2017).  His work has appeared with The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Hindu, Alternet and other outlets.

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Dr. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.

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