Doha Debates on Sunni-Shiite Violence

Juan Cole 05/02/2008

For those of you with access to BBC World, the best 24 hour news channel in the English-speaking world check out the Doha Debate this weekend. I was one of the debaters in Qatar.

Press coverage: The Christian Science Monitor

The blurb:

‘ Watch the latest Doha Debate: ‘This House believes the Sunni-Shia conflict is damaging Islam’s reputation as a religion of peace’ on BBC World on May 3rd and 4th at the following times:

Doha times: Saturday May 3rd: 10:10 and repeated at 18:10 and 22:10

Sunday May 4th: 03:10 and repeated at 10:10, 18:10 and 22:10

GMT Saturday May 3rd: 07:10 and repeated at 15:10 and 19:10

Sunday May 4th: 00:10 and repeated at 07:10, 15:10 and 19:10

The Doha Debates have been broadcast on BBC World since January 2005. BBC World is the BBC’s international, 24 hour news channel, broadcasting by satellite to nearly 300 million people in more than 200 countries. ‘

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page