{"id":1884,"date":"2013-01-30T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T14:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2013\/01\/cnn-analyst-peter-bergen-to-give-transylvanias-kenan-lecture-on-feb-20-at-730-p-m-free-and-open-to-the-public\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:57:31","slug":"cnn-analyst-peter-bergen-to-give-transylvanias-kenan-lecture-on-feb-20-at-730-p-m-free-and-open-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2013\/01\/cnn-analyst-peter-bergen-to-give-transylvanias-kenan-lecture-on-feb-20-at-730-p-m-free-and-open-to-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN analyst Peter Bergen to give Transylvania\u2019s Kenan Lecture on Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m.; free and open to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"150\" class=\"imgBordersLeft\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/news\/images\/illustrations\/bergen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"218\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Peter Bergen\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Peter Bergen, journalist, bestselling author and director of the national security studies program at the New America Foundation, will give Transylvania University\u2019s winter term Kenan Lecture, \u201cThe Awakening: How Revolutionaries, Barack Obama and Ordinary Muslims Are Remaking the Middle East,\u201d on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. <strong>The lecture is free and open to the public.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>\nBergen will also sign his most recent book, \u201cManhunt: The Ten Year Search for bin Laden, From 9\/11 to Abbotabad.\u201d The book is a New York Times bestseller and is being adapted into a documentary by HBO.<\/p>\n<p>Bergen has been a producer and analyst for CNN. In 1997 he produced Osama bin Laden\u2019s first television interview, during which bin Laden declared war against the United States. He has reported on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, counterterrorism, homeland security and the Middle East for several publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, TIME and The Atlantic. He has been nominated for an Emmy and a National Magazine Award, and in 1994 he won the Overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow award for best foreign affairs documentary.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of two other books, \u201cThe Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda\u2019s Leader\u201d and \u201cHoly War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of bin Laden.\u201d He is a fellow at Fordham University\u2019s Center on National Security and previously taught at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University. <\/p>\n<p>The lecture is part of Transylvania\u2019s William R. Kenan Jr. Lecture Series and is funded by a grant from the William R. 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He has reported on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, counterterrorism, homeland security and the Middle East for several publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, TIME and The Atlantic. He has been nominated for an Emmy and a National Magazine Award, and in 1994 he won the Overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow award for best foreign affairs documentary. 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