1.0 link 55750 <![CDATA[Talking with Lawrence Wright]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/freddy-deknatel/talking-with-lawrence-wri_b_55750.html "Islam and the West have clashed in the past and have not clashed. There is nothing inevitable about it."

This was Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, in a long distance interview I did for the Daily Star Egypt last month. Wright studied and taught at the American University in Cairo from 1969-71 as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam war.

Wright came to Cairo after a...

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