Want to learn about the culture, history, and politics in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia? Then listen to newsmakers@Central including:

• Andrew Bacevich | The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
• Steve Coll | The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
• Dexter Filkins | The Forever War
• Khaleid Hosseini | A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Sebastian Junger | War
• Ahmed Rashid | Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
• Thomas E. Ricks | The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
• Colin Thubron | Shadow of the Silk Road

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