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Michael Shank: What inspired you to organize an Arab arts symposium and festival? Michael Kaiser: I start with the belief that Americans know very little about a lot of different kinds of people around the world. We read an awful lot in our newspapers about politics and politicians but we don’t read an awful lot about societies and people and how they think, their education, their cultures. My belief is that it is very, very important to understand these things if you’re going to get along with other people and make peace. You have to understand them as people, not just as political entities. I believe that our role at the Kennedy Center, as the national cultural center, in part, is to explain and to educate people in this country about other people.
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