Ishmael Khaldi was born in Khawaled, a village near Haifa. He is the third of eleven children and lived in a Bedouin tent until the age of eight. He walked four miles (6 km) round trip to attend school and tended flocks of sheep. He said his family’s ties with its Jewish neighbors go back…
EP 168: Eric L. Adam’s one way ticket is to this Mesopotamian civilization.
For the past three decades, Eric L. Adams has served the residents of Brooklyn as Borough President, State Senator, Police Officer, and coalition builder. In November of 2017, he was re-elected for a second term to represent all of Brooklyn as Borough President. Born in Brownsville and educated in the city’s public school system, Eric…
EP 130: Ambassador Burns’ one way ticket is to serve as an advisor to FDR to avert “the greatest crime in modern history”.
Ambassador Nicholas Burns (Ret.) is the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is the Faculty Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project and Faculty Chair of the programs on the Middle East and South Asia. He is Director of…
EP 84: The BP’s one way ticket is to this year, to this NYC borough — the birthplace of Tony Curtis, Anne Bancroft & Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Ruben Diaz, Jr. first entered public office as a member of the New York State Assembly in 1997, and is currently serving his second full term as Bronx Borough President, having been reelected in November 2013 with more than 89 percent of the vote. As Borough President, Ruben Diaz, Jr. has led the implementation of…
EP 25: Francisco’s one way ticket is to the place he describes as the “cathedral of all stadiums”.
Francisco Moya was elected to represent New York State’s 39th Assembly District in 2010, earning him the honor of being the first Ecuadorian-American ever elected to public office in the United States. A lifelong resident of Corona, Queens, Francisco began organizing in his community at age 15, when he and a group of concerned neighbors…