NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER ON MSNBC

Friday, October 26, 2001 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and 1 a.m. ET/10 p.m. PT
National Geographic EXPLORER Special Report: Lens of Darkness, Lens of Light
Encore Presentation
Host Segment Location: Egypt, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

Assignment: Egypt: On assignment for National Geographic EXPLORER, host Boyd Matson reports from Egypt, a moderate Arab country where a compelling snapshot of daily life unfolds through the lens of three Egyptian photographers.

Through These Eyes: In the days after the September 11th terrorism attack on the World Trade Center in New York, EXPLORER follows one of National Geographic’s celebrated photographers on the city streets as he records the city—and the nation—in mourning.

Iran: Behind the Veil: National Geographic photographer Alexandra Avakian revisits her ancestral homeland to capture the true face of Iran twenty years after its 1979 Islamic revolution.

Firefighters: EXPLORER honors the New York Fire Department with a special presentation of the series’ award-winning documentary Firefighters, an exceptional portrait of a branch of one of the world’s most fearless fraternities.

In Memory Of: EXPLORER pays tribute to two National Geographic employees who, together with three D.C. school children and their teachers, died when American Airlines Flight #77 crashed into the Pentagon on September 11.

Sunday, October 28, 2001 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT
National Geographic EXPLORER Special Report
Host Segment Location: Washington, D.C.

*Afghanistan’s Warriors: EXPLORER delves deep into the war-torn history of Afghanistan and asks “how might the jihad against the Soviets provide insight into the current situation in Afghanistan?” Through candid interviews with veteran war correspondents and others, EXPLORER reveals the mindset of Afghanistan’s Warriors. War journalist/filmmaker Jeff B. Harmon covered the Soviet-Afghan war in Afghanistan from three different sides, resulting in two execution orders on his life. EXPLORER also interviews former Soviet officer Mikhail Evstafiev, who served in Afghanistan; Mohammad Eshaq, a representative of the Islamic State of Afghanistan; and renowned veteran war journalist Edward Girardet, whose next article on Afghanistan will be published in an upcoming issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine.

*Wild Anthrax: EXPLORER travels to Africa to report on natural outbreaks of anthrax among Namibia’s wild animals. This tiny organism can drop a full-grown, three-ton African elephant dead in its tracks. The disease is especially dangerous to antelope and other herbivores, but often spares lions and hyenas. And what about humans and anthrax? To understand the behavior and effects of anthrax in today’s society, a leading authority on anthrax in the wild, Dr. Peter Turnbull, speaks exclusively with EXPLORER.

*WORLD PREMIERE

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