What will happen to the droves, the cops, and the Yazudis in the Middle East?

Gerard Russell joins us to talk about these religions and others, which he writes about

in his new book, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of

the Middle East.

The tolerance that people show to each other, the willingness to coexist, in the end,

can outweigh all of the persecutions put together.

That is an atheist to do living in a highly religious country like America.

Phil Zuckerman will be here to talk about his book, Living the Secular Life, New Answers

to Old Questions.

Alexander Altar will be here with notes from the publishing world, and Greg Cole's

has bestseller news.

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

I'm Pamela Paul.

I've got Gerard Russell calling in from London to talk about his new book, Heirs to Forgotten

Kingdoms, Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East, reviewed this week

in our Global Religion Issue of the Book Review.

Hi Gerard.

Hello.

So, the book is about a number of religions in the Middle East.

How did you come to write it?

I was a British diplomat in the Middle East for many, many years.

I lived in Cairo and Land Arabic there, and I lived in Jerusalem and also in Baghdad,

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