Political columnist David Newman and punk singer Gino Yevdjevich on this edition of Fresh Air. David Newman is a political columnist for the Jerusalem Post. He is also chairman of the department of politics and government at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and editor of the International Journal of Geopolitics. He'll discuss the history of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. He's written about the settlements in The New York Times. Newman is also author of the book, Population, Settlement and Conflict: Israel and the West Bank. Gino Yevdjevich is the lead singer of the Bosnian-Bulgarian punk rock band Kultur Shock. He was a rock musician in Sarajevo when the Bosnian War broke out. During the war, he played a major role in rewriting the musical Hair into a new version called Hair: Sarajevo, AD 1992 which played in Sarajevo for three years to standing room only crowds. Yevdjevich now lives in Seattle; he moved there in 1996 when a theatre produced his play Sarajevo: Behind God's Back. His band Kultur Shock has a new CD called F.U.C.C. the INS. (Broadcast Date: June 3, 2002)
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