War Update: Shiites in Iraq

By Robert Siegel

Published April 8, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

Robert Siegel talks with Professor Edmund Ghareeb about the Shiite population of Iraq. Ghareeb is professor of Kurdish and Middle East studies at American University, and professor of Iraq Studies at Georgetown University. He is also co-author of War in the Gulf: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications.

Robert Siegel

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.

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