Abdel Bari Atwan
Good natured chat from newspaper editor Abdel Bari Atwan as he recounts his journey from Palestinian refugee camps to the front page. One of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, Atwan shares some of his extraordinary encounters, including a weekend spent in a cave with Osama bin Laden.
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