FRDH Podcast with Michael Goldfarb

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**FRDH Podcast with Michael Goldfarb**

Host FRDH podcast. Radio essayist and documentarist for the BBC and NPR. Historian and author of Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace and Emancipation.

Latest Episodes:

WHAT IS A NATION? pt3 Bosnia-Herzegovina Apr 30, 2014

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National History: I have never witnessed the birth of a nation, but I have attended the death of one, Yugoslavia.

WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 2 Kurdistan Apr 30, 2014

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National History: The story of the Kurds, the largest ethnic group in the world without a "nation-state" of their own.

WHAT IS A NATION? pt 1 Northern Ireland Apr 30, 2014

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National History: When does a "tribe" become a "nation"? The case of Ulster's protestants or the Scotch-Irish as they are called in America

WHAT IS A NATION? pt 5 From the ashes of Empires Mar 25, 2014

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National History: Europe - what is "the" nation? What is the "nation-state"?

Faith Without God pt 2: Becoming Religions Anyway Feb 19, 2014

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Cultural History: Buddha, Confucius and the first Greek taught man was responsible for his own fate not the gods. But then something strange happened: their teachings became the basis for religions anyway.

Faith Without God, pt 1 Feb 19, 2014

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Cultural History: Buddha, Confucius and the first Greek philosophers all lived at precisely the same time. They were the first to say that man, not God or the gods, was the measure of all things. Coincidence? or were their civilizations in contact with each other? In this documentary, originally made for BBC Radio 3, archaeologists, historians and philosophers offer their answers.