Fresh Air, Khaled Abou El Fadl and Leo Litwak

De: Terry Gross

Narrado por: Terry Gross

Professor of Islamic law Khaled Abou El Fadl and English professor Leo Litwak on this edition of Fresh Air. Khaled Abou El Fadl is the professor of Islamic law at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. He's also the author of a number of books including, Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam a collection of essays about the problems and challenges that confront Muslims in the contemporary world. Leo Litwak is a retired San Francisco State University Professor of English. He's the author of the new memoir, The Medic: Life and Death in the Last Days of World War II. Litwak was a 19 year old medic. One reviewer writes "[A] book that should be given to every schoolboy in the country at the age of thirteen....The Medic teaches us so much, makes clear that sometimes the monsters in war are not only the enemy." (Broadcast Date: July 16, 2002)Want more Fresh Air?

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