Moderator of online Commonwealth Club discussion about Donald Trump’s policies in the Middle East.
July 9, 2020
On-stage interview of writer Carla Power at the Commonwealth Club: “Bridging Islam and the West.” Filmed for C-SPAN.
August 15, 2016
https://www.c-span.org/video/?413533-1/islam-west
https://www.c-span.org/video/?413533-1/islam-west
Interview for the Commonwealth Club with Palestinian activist Fadi Elsalameen. Online program called “Progress Towards Middle East Peace.”
May 10, 2021
Interview for the Commonwealth Club with Iran scholar Banafsheh Keynoush about her new book, Iran’s Interregional Dynamics in the Near East. Online program.
May 14, 2021
On-stage interview of author Stephen Kinzer, for his book The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire.
March 13, 2017
https://web.archive.org/web/20191229013456/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REa0NT8guXs
Talk at the Muslim Community Center of the East Bay about Arab and Muslim cultural influence on America
October 17, 2015
Moderator of “Crisis in Gaza” panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club
July 24, 2014
Interview with BBC Radio about the life and death of Ravi Shankar
December 11, 2012
https://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/ravi-shankar-the-humble-man
On-stage interview of The Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek at the California Institute of Integral Studies
February 25, 2011
On-stage interview of author Richard North Patterson at the Commonwealth Club. Filmed for C-SPAN
May 11, 2011
https://www.c-span.org/video/?299896-1/book-discussion-devils-light
Moderator of “Arab Spring” panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club
July 18, 2011
On-stage interview of U.S. diplomat and Middle East expert Aaron David Miller at the Commonwealth Club
December 3, 2009
On-stage interview of John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded – and What We Need to Do to Remake Them, at the Commonwealth Club. Filmed for C-SPAN
November 18, 2009
https://www.c-span.org/video/?290217-1/book-discussion-hoodwinked
Also viewable on Fora.TV
http://library.fora.tv/2009/11/18/John_Perkins_How_to_Remake_the_Global_Economy
On-stage interview of Islam scholar Reza Aslan at the Commonwealth Club
September 1, 2009
Also viewable here:
http://library.fora.tv/2009/09/01/Islamic_Identity_in_the_US_Reza_Aslan
On-stage interview of Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, at the Commonwealth Club, about drone attacks in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden, and other subjects. Recorded for Fora.TV
April 1, 2009
http://library.fora.tv/2009/04/01/Resurgence_of_the_Taliban_in_Pakistan_Hamid_Mir#chapter_01
On-stage interview of Robert Baer, former CIA operative and the inspiration behind George Clooney’s character in Syriana, at the Commonwealth Club
March 24, 2009
http://audio.commonwealthclub.org/audio/podcast/cc_20090324_baer.mp3
On-stage interview of Thomas Ricks, military historian and journalist, at the Commonwealth Club
Recorded for Fora.TV
February 23, 2009
http://library.fora.tv/2009/02/23/Thomas_Ricks_The_Gamble#chapter_01
Moderator of panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club on “Palestinian Struggles for Nationality”
February 19, 2009
http://audio.commonwealthclub.org/audio/podcast/cc_20090219_palestinepanel.mp3
Interview with PRI’s “The World” about the book, Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots
December 4, 2008
http://www.pri.org/stories/2008-12-04/geo-quizglobal-hit
Talk at the World Affairs Council of Northern California about the book, Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots
November 10, 2008
http://www.worldaffairs.org/media-library/event/286#.V8E3upMrKu4