[Updated]: We weren’t the only ones who noticed or mentioned our book. Read this article from The New Yorker.

This photo appeared in The Daily Star (Lebanon) earlier this week alongside an article on their elections. On the table in front of President Carter– a copy of Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton.

Yesterday The Riz Khan Show interviewed Emile Nakhleh, author of A Necessary Engagement, as part of their program on The US’s Middle East Challenge. The complete program is available below in two parts.

Part 1

Part 2

Former CIA front man on Islamic relations Emile Nakhleh has been speaking about his new book A NECESSARY ENGAGEMENT: Reinventing America’s Relations with the Muslim World and what the Obama Administration can do reinvent our relations with our Muslim neighbors.  He speaks with Ken Silverstein on Harpers.com today and part 2 of the interview will appear tomorrow.  Also, Robert Ellman over at the Intrepid Liberal Journal spoke with Emile this past weekend. 

The book seems especially timely considering today’s news coming from Iran regarding their willingness to engage in a new dialogue with the United States.