nisid hajari, the 2016 winner of the recipient and winner of the famed norwich colby award. what we are going to do today is have a conversation. you have read his bio i'm sure. you should take a look at the pamphlet that was handed out. he's a very famous journalist. he helped set up by magazines asia edition. he lives now in singapore and works or bloomberg. and he's written this book called "midnight's furies," and what we wanted to do today is unpacked this book. and nisid, i have not intentionally not read the entire bio because i think it would be of more interesteintereste d audience for us to have a conversation and put the book in perspective. so this book deals with events that happened in countries far away, over 70 some odd years ago but i would contend that the book is so timely and some of the to where we are today. it connects with headline issues that you see in the newspapers every day. the war in afghanistan. the war in iraq. america's engagement with the world. america's leadership and transforming or have tried to ill bring inuntries, what the asia, the r

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