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Youssef M. Ibrahim, an expert on energy and the Middle East, talks about Iraqi oil on this edition of Fresh Air. Ibrahim is group editor at Energy Intelligence, a company that publishes news and provides data and analysis about international energy issues.

Cartoonist Daniel Clowes, director Terry Zwigoff, and remembering country music star Waylon Jennings on this edition of Fresh Air.

Hear journalist Linda Greenhouse and rock historian Ed Ward on this edition of Fresh Air. Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, will tell us about the current Supreme Court, including issues facing the court and cases coming up in the future. She's been covering the court since 1978. Then, rock historian Ed Ward profiles songwriter Doc Pomus (1925-1991). Born Jerome Solon Felder, he wrote hits for Ray Charles and Elvis Presley.

Associate curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Russell Ferguson on this edition of Fresh Air. Ferguson curated the exhibit "In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art." Frank O'Hara was part of a small group of poets in New York City in the 1950s and 60s, influenced by the Abstract Expressionist painters of that time, including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. O'Hara died in 1966 after being struck by a jeep.

Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Her latest book is her first novel called My Dream of You.

Spanish and Portuguese professor Maria Rose Menocal and writer, musician, and broadcaster Jamie Bernstein Thomas on this edition of Fresh Air. Maria Rose Menocal is a R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She is also the author of the new book: The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in Medieval Spain.

Soviet born journalist Masha Gessen and poet Li-Young Lee on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Masha Gessen edited a collection of post-Soviet fiction by women, Half a Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women. Gessen says that most of the writers in the collection belong to the "mute generation" that came of age under Brezhnev.

Boston Globe Foreign correspondent Charles Sennott on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Sennott was recently in Northern Iraq where he traveled independently with a group of journalists. He was in Kirkuk when Allied forces took the city from Baathist control. In Afghanistan, in 2001 Sennott traveled with the Northern Alliance.

On this edition of Fresh Air, New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer talks about his new book Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds. He describes a country caught between the entrenched ruling elite and its younger, well-educated population who want democracy. And, Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Love and Theft, Bob Dylan's latest.

Writer Benson Bobrick on this edition of Fresh Air. He's the author of the recently published Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired. The book chronicles the difficulties scholars had in translating the Bible into English - efforts that culminated in the King James Version.

Host Terry Gross talks with people involved with "Youth Portraits," a radio skills training program for ex-offenders released from Riker's Island prison in New York City on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Riker's Island is the biggest jail in North America.

Retired army colonel James A. Martin and psychologist Robert Jay Lifton on this edition of Fresh Air. James A. Martin is an expert on the mental health issues of military personnel and their families. He was a senior social worker in the first Gulf war counseling soldiers before and after battle. Martin has written extensively on these matters.

Record producers Charles Granata and Didier Deutsch and pianist and singer Michael Feinstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Granata and Didier Deutsch have collaborated on the CD box set, Frank Sinatra In Hollywood (1940-1964) which collects Sinatra's film recordings - many of them rare. In fact only ten percent of the 160 tracks included on the collection have been released before.

Hear writer Robert Kuttner on this edition of Fresh Air. Robert Kuttner's new book is called The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity. Kuttner is founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, a senior fellow at the Demos Public Policy Center, and a regular contributor to the Boston Globe. He wrote a column for Business Week for 20 years, and he is a regular radio and TV commentator.

Author Kevin Conley on this edition of Fresh Air. His book, STUD: Adventures in Breeding, about breeding racehorses is now out in paperback. STUD explores the process of creating champions, from the farms of Kentucky, where studs command a half million a pop, to the horse auctions, where the world's richest people compete for the top yearlings.

Psychiatrist and director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj and Psychiatrist, peace activist and feminist, Dr. Ruchama Marton on this archive edition of Fresh Air. The Programme is a non-profit Palestinian, non-governmental organization, formed to help families cope with the aftermath of torture and violence. El-Sarraj is well known in the occupied territories and Isreal as Gaza's first practicing psychiatrist and for his efforts to foster co-existence between Arabs and Jews.

Writer Alec Wilkinson and an archive interview with William Maxwell on this edition of Fresh Air. Alec Wilkinson remembers his friend and mentor William Maxwell, who died Monday at the age of 91. Wilkinson is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and has been there since 1980.

Hear actor Peter Fonda and rock historian Ed Ward, on this edition of Fresh Air. The western 3:10 to Yuma is now out on DVD. The film is a remake of the 1957 western based on an Elmore Leonard story. It features Fonda as a hard-bitten bounty hunter named Byron McElroy. Some of Fonda's other films include the counterculture classic Easy Rider, Ulee's Gold, and The Limey.

Hear former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, on this edition of Fresh Air. Valerie Plame Wilson's new memoir is Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. She was outed as an undercover agent by columnist Robert Novak in 2003. This was shortly after her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, had written an op-ed piece contradicting President Bush's contention that Saddam Hussein had tried to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger.

Hear political scientist Jonathan Oberlander and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on this edition of Fresh Air. Jonathan Oberlander is a political scientist with expertise in health politics and policy. He'll discuss the problems with our health-care system and consider how other countries handle health care. Then, Kevin Whitehead reviews Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions.