EPISODE · Feb 17, 2026 · 31 MIN
NPR legend Deborah Amos
from Books and More with William Cooper · host wcooper11
A longtime international correspondent, Amos spent much of her award-winning career at National Public Radio. Her reporting on the Middle East and refugees in the U.S. regularly featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and All Things Considered. We discuss it in depth. She recently covered the Syrian and Iraqi refugee crises, the economy in the Middle East, and the Arab youth surge. Previously she reported for ABC’s Nightline and PBS’s Frontline. Amos is the author of two books: Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East, and Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World. She has won several major journalism honors, including a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation, a George Foster Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Emmy. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/deborah-amos/eclipse-of-the-sunnis/9781586488543/?lens=publicaffairs https://journalism.princeton.edu/people/deborah-amos-2018/
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