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Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #244

Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #244

Recommended on this episode

MediaRecommended

Afghan Star

Havana Marking (inferred)

“a wonderful documentary called afghan star that i recommend to your listeners and viewers”
“there's a wonderful documentary called afghan star that i recommend to your listeners and viewers that it's about a singing show”— Robert Crews
MediaRecommended

Love Crimes of Kabul

Tanaz Eshaghian (inferred)

“another great documentary film called um love crimes of kabul which is a great snapshot”
“there's another great documentary film called um love crimes of kabul which is a great snapshot of of the post 2000 world”— Robert Crews

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

Afghan Modern

Robert Crews

“one of the themes of of the book you know that you may or may not have read um you know afghan modern was about you know conceptualizing afghanistan as a cosmopolitan place”— Robert Crews

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

MediaReferenced

Rambo III

Sylvester Stallone (inferred)

“here i refer your listeners and viewers to rambo three as the guide to the historically accurate historically accurate the bible the bible of african history and rainbow three”— Robert Crews
MediaReferenced

Rocky IV

Sylvester Stallone (inferred)

“this conflict has to do with another celestial stone movie iraqi iv which is also historically accurate and based on uh it's basically a documentary”— Lex Fridman
BookReferencedISBN verified

Messages to the World

Osama bin Laden

“it was only a verso in the uk that published a famous volume called messages to the world which was the first combining compendium of of banan's writings”— Robert Crews
BookReferenced

global icons book (on bin Laden, Bob Marley, Tupac)

Jeremy Prestholdt

“there's a great book by um a great scholar at uc san diego um jeremy prestol who wrote a great book about global icons in which he has bin laden he has bob marley”— Robert Crews
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

“my wife was teaching the joseph conrad novel secret agent which was about a conspiratorial organization that wanted to bomb”— Robert Crews
MediaReferenced

Shahnameh (The Book of Kings)

Ferdowsi (inferred)

“it's from you know like the chaname like an ancient persian you know epic that iranians were attached to that afghans are attached to... it's called the book of kings”— Robert Crews