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She's a scholar, a grandmother, and now a prisoner of the Iranian government. We look at the arrest earlier this month of DC-based Middle East expert Haleh Esfandiari, the diplomatic efforts to free her, and whether her case may impact next week's planned US-Iran talks.
Henri Barkey, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Professor in International Relations, Lehigh University
Karim Sadjadpour, Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Washington has the second-highest death rate for breast cancer in the nation. Despite that statistic, the number of women getting mammograms is on the decline. Join Kojo for a look at the obstacles to treatment, the latest on prevention programs, and why disparities in minority death rates exist.
Carolyn Hendricks, MD, Oncologist, Suburban Hospital-Bethesda
Susan Butler, Executive Director, DC Cancer Coalition
Diane Balma, Vice-President of Public Policy, The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Humanitarian groups have helped populations-in-crisis for centuries. But, with emergency aid now increasingly professionalized and sophisticated, aid workers find themselves facing many new practical and philosophical ambiguities. Kojo explores how past lessons are being applied to today's conflicts.
John Norris, Chief of Political Affairs, United Nations Mission in Nepal; author "The Disaster Gypsies: Humanitarian Workers in the World's Deadliest Conflicts" (Praeger Security International)
Alex De Waal, Program Director, Social Sciences Research Council; and Fellow, Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University
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