Brian Lehrer Weekend: Arab-Americans; Joseph Stiglitz; #PlasticsChallenge
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Your Arab-American Immigration Stories (First) | Reframing 'Free' Beyond Markets (Starts at 26:36) | A #PlasticsChallenge Wrap Up (Starts at 1:02:30)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Brian Lehrer here, up next Brian Lehrer weekend. |
| 0:02.9 | Three of our favorite segments from the week packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend. |
| 0:07.5 | So enjoy and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org. It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. It's Arab American |
| 0:39.7 | Heritage Month part three on this show up first. |
| 0:44.0 | Last week, as some of you heard, |
| 0:45.4 | we invited listeners of Arab descent |
| 0:47.4 | to call in and share your immigration stories. |
| 0:50.7 | Here in year four after President Biden declared April Arab American Heritage |
| 0:56.8 | Month in the United States in 2021 and we had so many great stories we |
| 1:01.1 | didn't have time to hear so we're coming back to it again today for a part two. So listeners call in |
| 1:06.4 | with your Arab American family's immigration story to America. |
| 1:12.6 | 212 433 WNYC. |
| 1:16.0 | And of course this could be yourself, |
| 1:17.9 | but it could be your parent story. |
| 1:19.6 | It could be your grandparents story |
| 1:21.7 | or earlier ancestors from anywhere in the Arab world. |
| 1:25.7 | Tell us your family immigration story to America at 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 962, our phones are open for you. |
| 1:37.7 | And we're going to add one more part to our question |
| 1:41.1 | to you for today, which is are the events in the Middle East particularly |
| 1:45.1 | difficult for you right now in the context of being Arab American. We try to |
| 1:50.1 | hear all voices here. We listened with our guest Noah Feldman this week to how difficult |
| 1:54.3 | to time it is for many American Jews on this Passover week. Now Arab Americans in this Arab |
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