🎧Oct. 24, Fri., 5am U.S. Eastern
New York City Mayoral Election
Jonathan Mahler
New York Times Magazine
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Others cover the news.
We uncover the history behind it.
We do this in weekly podcast conversations with eminent scholars and historians who explain and analyze the history behind current events. And we call this peeling the history behind our news.
Why is this important? Because news in America lacks historical perspective.
With more than 195 guest scholars hosted by Adel Aali, HbN is now in its 5th season with new episodes every Friday at 5 a.m., U.S. Eastern Time.
A message for Middle Eastern Americans: Don't let U.S. news media or Hollywood tell your story. And don't follow people who read a few books and are suddenly experts. In this program, I bring you the sources of Middle East analysis and history - 195 scholars (and counting) who distill their decades of research into an hour conversation with me to unravel the misperceptions that divide East and West and to clarify our common misconceptions about the Middle East - from its ancient empires to modern nations.
Visit our Middle East page for details.
Our more than 195 podcast guests who have helped us interpret news and current events through the perspective of history are scholars from these and many other prestigious institutions:
Our guests are scholars in prestigious institutions, such as Oxford, Yale, Caltech, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the Hoover Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, King's College London, Princeton University, Notre Dame, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, the Atlantic Council, Duke, Amherst College, University of Michigan, Rhodes College, Northwestern Law, Vanderbilt University, US Naval War College, Air Command and Staff College, Marine Corp University, UVA, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, NYU, Rice, University of Chicago, White House Historical Association, Baylor University, USC, UC Berkeley, UCSF, UCI, UCSD, UC Davis, UCR, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Israel Democracy Institute, University of Aberdeen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Navarra, University of Seville, Helsinki University, Diego Portales University (Chile), Lund University (Sweden), University of Edinburgh, Near East University (Türkiye), Cardiff University, the Free University of Berlin and many others.
Our guests include Pulitzer Prize winners, renowned documentary producers, current and former senior reporters at The Wall Street Journal, former White House advisors and other high-ranking government officials. Many have testified in Congressional hearings and others frequently contribute to major media outlets and widely read publications, ranging from the BBC, NPR, PBS and CNN to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
History Behind News is an independent program. This means that Adel Aali and his team are not employed by anyone for all the work they put into producing HbN's podcast, posts, and upcoming features and products.
Basically, we rely on your support to continue our work in bringing you the history behind our news.
So thank you. Thank you for being a valuable part of our program.
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