Notes on a Century. Relections of a Middle East Historian, Bernard Lewis, Londres, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012
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Bernard Lewis, né le 31 mai 1916 à Londres, est un historien, professeur émérite des études sur le Moyen-Orient à l’Université de Princeton, spécialiste de la Turquie, du monde musulman et des interactions entre l’Occident et l’Islam1. Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages de référence sur le sujet.
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« I have been inerviewd many times, by journalists and others, in many countries. These interviews fall broadly into two distinct categories, In the first, the interviewer comes with his list of questions, prepared in advance, He may or may not listen to your answers; there is no clear evidence one way or the other, Whenyou finish your answer, or are interrupted, the interviewer proceeds to his second question, irrespective of where you are in the narrative, There is no follow-up, The same thing happens with his third, fourth and subsequent questions that he may have.

The other kind of interview, very much rarer, is one in which the interviewer actually listens. In effect he comes only with and outline and a first question, listens to what you have t say until you finish your remarks, and the poses a second question arising fro your answer to the fit. In the same way his third question often arises from the second and so on.

In my experience, the first kind of interview is usually a bore, for the particpants as well as for the audience. The second is far more interesting and can even be of value. I suppos, applying economic principles, one might say tha its value is increased by its rarity. In my experience i have had many exemples of the first kind, very few of the second. »