Amanpour: Ibrahim Halawa, Maya Foa, John Waters, Kate Hamill

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ibrahim Halawa, former prisoner in Egypt, and Maya Foa, director of human rights organization Reprieve, discuss the mass trials occurring in Egypt under President el-Sisi's government. John Waters, director of "Hairspray", reflects on his career and writing his memoir, "Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder". Our Alicia Menendez sits down with Kate Hamill, actor and playwright, about her adaptation of "Little Women" and the importance of updating the classics.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	My friend,
0:08.0	Tukk is England.
0:10.0	Egypt's President Abdel Fata El Cissi is a stalwart ally of the United States
0:15.3	and according to a new report a flagrant human rights abuser. I'll speak with the
0:20.3	report's author and also a former prisoner.
0:23.0	Plus, all my movies have said one thing.
0:25.0	Whatever society uses against you,
0:28.0	exaggerate it, turn it into a style, and you'll win.
0:31.0	Outrageous and unfilted, moviemaker John Waters on his blockbuster film hairspray and imparting wisdom to his so-called
0:40.7	filth followers. And...
0:42.9	It doesn't have to sort of live in this cold marble altar
0:47.7	and be a dead thing.
0:49.1	Reclaiming classics of the theater for our modern age.
0:52.6	Our Alicia Menendez speaks with playwright Kate Hamill
0:55.7	about her new production of little women. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London.
1:17.0	After a big week for President Trump with a royal visit here in the United Kingdom
1:22.0	and commemorating the 75th anniversary
1:24.8	of D-Day in Normandy, we continue to look at President Trump's foreign policy.
1:29.8	Now in his effort to remake a lot of this in his own liking he
1:34.2	state an enormous amount of political capital on some well-worn
1:38.6	alliances in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Egypt.
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