Look back at excerpts from our conversations with reporters over the past 10 years about religion and its changing role in our world.
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December 22, 2010

Revisit our 2005 conversation about the iraq war with Anthony Shadid, who this week won his second Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. More →

April 15, 2010

After Iranian officials said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won last week’s presidential election by a landslide, hundreds of thousands who supported opposition candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi took to the streets in protest. Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton spoke … More →

June 19, 2009

As Iraqis get ready to elect a new parliament and write a new constitution, we discuss the role of religion in Iraq with Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international affairs and Middle Eastern studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. More →

January 28, 2005

As U.S. officials debate who should run Iraq after the war, one reality is the division between the two main branches of Islam, Shi’ite and Sunni. Dr. Phebe Marr, a historian and expert on Iraq, joined us to discuss the future of the conflict.
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April 4, 2003

Read more of Bob Abernethy’s interview with Dr. Phebe Marr, an Arabist and leading specialist on Iraq, about religion and politics in post-war Iraq and the origins of the split between Shii and Sunni Muslims. More →

April 4, 2003