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Stand up comics Ahmed Ahmed and Maz Jobrani and Pakistani dancer Sheema Kermani on this edition of Fresh Air. Ahmed is Egyptian-American, and Jobrani is Iranian-American. They've changed their routines since September 11th, cracking jokes about attending flight school and the like. Both have had small parts as terrorists in action films. Jobrani was in a Chuck Norris film and Ahmed was Terrorist #4 in Executive Decision. They live in Los Angeles.

Comedian and actor Tim Meadows and journalist Robert Sullivan on this edition of Fresh Air. Meadows was a regular on TV's Saturday Night Live for some 9 years. Leon the Ladies Man, a swingin' politically incorrect radio love doctor that he played on the show, is now featured in the new film The Ladies Man.

Author Jim DeRogatis on this archive edition of Fresh Air. DeRogatis is the author of Let It Blurt: The Life & Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic. Recently portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman in Cameron Crowe's movie Almost Famous, Bangs wrote about rock 'n' roll for Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice.

Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg and writer, actor, director, comedian, and radio host Harry Shearer on this edition of Fresh Air. Jeffrey Goldberg's article in the current New Yorker magazine is about Saddam Hussein's chemical attacks on the Kurds in 1988. There is also new evidence of Hussein's ties to Al Qaeda. Goldberg has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2000. His specialty is foreign reporting with an emphasis on Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Hear teachers Frank Burd and Ed Klein, and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Frank Burd and Ed Klein are Philadelphia public school teachers who were attacked on the job. They talk about the difficulties of teaching in inner-city schools.

Executive producer and writer of HBO's Oz Tom Fontana and psychology professor Paul Ekman on this edition of Fresh Air. Tom Fontana is responsible for Oz, the realistic drama about life in an experimental unit of a maximum security prison. Fontana also created Homicide: Life on the Street and the 1980s drama set in a city hospital, St. Elsewhere.

Record producer and musician Don Was on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Was co-founded the funk rock group, "Was (Not) Was." In 1995, he won a Grammy for Producer of the Year. In addition, he's produced a number of albums for Bonnie Raitt, including her Nick of Time album which revived her career, Rolling Stones, Lyle Lovett, Al Green, Iggy Pop, and the B-52's.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and columnist Bruce Bartlett on this edition of Fresh Air. He is a professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His research is mainly in the areas of international trade and finance. He is one of the founders of an economic postulation called the "new trade theory." Krugman has also written and edited many books.

Sound archivist Jeff Place and jazz trumpeter Steven Bernstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Jeff Place is the head archivist for the Ralph Rinzler folklife archives and collections of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Place is featured on the upcoming History Channel special Save our History: Save Our Sounds.

Writer Jon Katz on this edition of Fresh Air. He's the author of the new book, The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family. It's about how attached many of us have become to our dogs, treating them more like family members and human surrogates than pets.

Palestinian human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh and editor and author David Horowitz on this edition of Fresh Air. Shehadeh is the author of the new memoir When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege. His previous book is the memoir Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine.

Journalist David E. Hoffman and inventor Robert Moog on this edition of Fresh Air. David E. Hoffman's new book is.

Journalist Eric Boehlert and Clear Channel CEO John Hogan on this edition of Fresh Air. Eric Boehlert writes for the online magazine Salon. He's been covering the story surrounding Clear Channel Communications Inc., a media conglomerate that owns 1,200 radio stations nationwide.

ABC news correspondent John Miller on this edition of Fresh Air. Miller is one of few western reporters to interview Osama bin Laden, which he did in 1998. He's collaborated on the new book, The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It. In the book, they retrace the movements of al-Qaeda leading up to the September 11th attacks.

On this edition of Fresh Air, host Terry Gross speaks with Nicholas de Torrente, the executive director of the USA division of the French medical relief organization Doctors without Borders. During August, he was in the Northern Territory of Afghanistan checking on the work of the organization. Doctors without Borders had to negotiate with the Taliban to do their work. After the terrorist attacks, the organization evacuated all foreign workers from the country, leaving their Afghani staff behind.

Filmmaker John Waters on this edition of Fresh Air. His film Cecil B. Demented has just been released on video and DVD. It's about an underground filmmaker and his cult following who declare war on bad cinema by kidnapping a starlet and forcing her to star in their own film.

Writer Barry Hannah and journalist Andrew Meldrum on this archive edition of Fresh Air. A native of Mississippi, Barry Hannah has been writing short stories and novels set in the South for over thirty years. Truman Capote once called him "the maddest writer in the U.S.A." His first book, the autobiographical novel Geronimo Rex won the William Faulkner Prize for writing. He followed that with Airships, a collection of short stories now considered a classic.

In this edition of Fresh Air, Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio on disposed dictators and journalist Joyce Davis on the views of martyrdom among extremists in the Middle East on this edition of Fresh Air. Riccardo Orizio is the author of the book Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators. He interviewed deposed dictators who haven't apologized for their crimes and weren't rehabilitated.

Listen to filmmakers John Alpert and Matthew O'Neill, and film critic David Edelstein on this edition of Fresh Air. John Alpert's and Matthew O'Neill's new documentary, Baghdad ER, is a recipient of this year's coveted Peabody award and is out on DVD. The film looks inside the 86th combat support hospital, the Army's premier medical facility in Iraq.

Writers Aleksander Hemon and Wayne Barrett on this edition of Fresh Air. Hemon was born in Sarajevo in 1964. While in his early 20s, he came to the United States as a tourist.