The Middle East

The Middle East

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 63 , Segment 4

Episode: Bipartisanship, Dominance, Shakespeare, Middle East

  • May 14, 2015 9:00 pm
  • 37:49 mins

Guests: John Macfarlane, adjunct Utah Valley University political science professor Josh Gubler, professor of political science at BYU Steven Lobell, from the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah, author of six books on International Relations and Middle Eastern studies President Barack Obama had probably hoped for a better turnout of Persian Gulf leaders at Camp David this week. The U.S. organized the summit with the goal of smoothing feathers and getting buy-in from Arab leaders unhappy that America is negotiating a nuclear deal with their sworn enemy—Iran. But of the six Gulf States, only the leaders of Qatar and Kuwait have come to Camp David. The King of Saudi Arabia notably cancelled at the last minute – which was widely viewed as a snub. Bahrain’s King is also a no-show.

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Motivation behind Collecting

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Guest: YanLiu Huang, assistant marketing professor at Drexel University A woman named Anne Langton in the UK currently holds the world record for the largest collect of pig items. Over 40 years she’s amassed 16,779 pig figurines, stuffed toys, piggy banks and so on. Nancy Hoffman of Peaks Island Maine holds the Guinness record for the largest collection of umbrella sleeves—you know those fabric slip covers that usually get lost the first time you open a new umbrella? Nancy has 730 of them and has turned her house into the official Umbrella Cover Museum. Is there any rhyme or reason to the urge to collect stuff? Dr. YanLiu Huang thinks so. She’s a marketing professor at Drexel University and author of a study in the Journal of Marketing about the moment when someone decides to start a collection.

Guest: YanLiu Huang, assistant marketing professor at Drexel University A woman named Anne Langton in the UK currently holds the world record for the largest collect of pig items. Over 40 years she’s amassed 16,779 pig figurines, stuffed toys, piggy banks and so on. Nancy Hoffman of Peaks Island Maine holds the Guinness record for the largest collection of umbrella sleeves—you know those fabric slip covers that usually get lost the first time you open a new umbrella? Nancy has 730 of them and has turned her house into the official Umbrella Cover Museum. Is there any rhyme or reason to the urge to collect stuff? Dr. YanLiu Huang thinks so. She’s a marketing professor at Drexel University and author of a study in the Journal of Marketing about the moment when someone decides to start a collection.