'Nation of Strangers'

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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According to the latest annual report by Human Rights Watch, President Donald Trump is pushing America towards authoritarian rule. It says nearly three-quarters of the global population now live under autocratic rulers - putting democracy at its lowest point in forty years. It's a bleak reality that our first guest saw coming. Writer and activist Ece Temelkuran left Turkey ten years ago after learning she might be arrested for criticizing President Erdogan. Temelkuran joins the show to discuss her new book, "Nation of Strangers." Also on today's show: Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson, Qatar Museums and Doha Film Institute; Tig Notaro, co-producer of “Come See Me in the Good Light," joined by the subject of the documentary, poet Megan Falley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:36.6	We are here offering our help because we are coming from those countries that we lost to fascism and we know how not to this time.
0:46.3	As an authoritarian wave sweeps the world, I speak to Turkish writer Eche Temulkaran about her new book, Nation of Strangers, and what history teaches
0:56.1	us about how democracy can easily slide into dictatorship.
1:00.0	Then...
1:01.0	It's not like, you know, one day we woke up and we said, okay, now we're going to fill
1:05.3	the gaps of a knowledge-based society.
1:07.2	It was an intentional vision.
1:08.8	The woman behind Doha's bid to become the world's cultural capital,
1:12.6	Sheika Al-Mayasa bin Khaled bin Khalifa Altani tells me about bringing contemporary art to Qatar.
1:19.6	Also ahead.
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