Joumana Khatib
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1,079 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
Joumana Khatib’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he was part of the raid on the OPEC headquarters in 1975.
He hijacked a plane, held people hostage.
I mean, it's like really the checklist of, you know, international Marxist-Leninist terrorism.
It's an incredible story.
Does anybody else have another August book?
Wow.
Okay.
I'm going to stay with nonfiction.
This is something that I think will appeal to everybody in this studio and hopefully at home.
It's a work of New York City history, which I always enjoy.
And it's about an underexplored period of Black life flourishing in Manhattan.
Awesome.
Okay.
So this is called A Moment in the Sun by Shane White.
So this is in pre-Civil War Manhattan.
And Shane White really tells us the story of this period through some rather memorable characters.
I didn't know that most of New York City's oystermen at the time were Black.
I knew about Thomas Downing.
He was the one that started letting women come into oyster bars so long as they were accompanied by their husband.
Charles Dickens ate at his oyster dive.
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