Behzad Yaghmaian & Hugh Kennedy

Millions of Muslims from oppressed nations in the Middle East and Africa are fleeing to the West -- into the embrace of the infidel -- and their story is now told in a new book by journalist Behzad Yaghmaian called Embracing the Infidel. We'll talk with him in a few minutes, but first: today's Baghdad is a city besieged by war, the capital of a struggling third-world country. But many centuries ago, Baghdad was a world-class city, a shining star, the fabled metropolis we've read about in The Arabian Nights. Now British historian Hugh Kennedy brings the ancient city to life in a book called When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World.