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Journalist Nina Burleigh At Brookens

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Amanda Vinicky

Published June 22, 2015 at 7:43 PM CDT

Every day brings news about the Middle East, and its complex political, religious and economic systems.

To help make sense of ISIS, jihad and Middle Eastern culture, Newsweek correspondent and University of Illinois Springfield Public Affairs Reporting program graduate Nina Burleigh is coming to Springfield for a free Friends of Brookens Library talk, on Tuesday, June 23, at 7 p.m. at the UIS Student Theater.

WUIS's Amanda Vinicky spoke with Burleigh about her experience covering Illinois government, her travels to the Middle East, and how being a descendent of an Assyrian Christian Iraqi immigrant has impacted her career.

Here's an extended version of that conversation.

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