Shimon Peres appears on MTV

In a New York college class, the MTV camera and all eyes were on the door, awaiting the professor - a surprise.

In walked Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres. "I am your surprise," the 82-year-old Nobel Prize

winner, cracking a smile, told the undergraduate students at New York University.

The result was a taped-for-MTV discussion of the world's troubles, with Peres telling the politics majors that the biggest achievement of the past century was the liberation of women.

The session is to air Sept. 27 on MTV's college-targeted network, mtvU, which pipes student-aimed programming onto more than 700 U.S. campuses, as well as the cable channel's public Web site.

When questions-and-answers time came, Peres was peppered with queries about everything from how he felt when the Palestinian flag was raised over Gaza after Israel's withdrawal, to whether Israelis and Palestinians could live side by side.

Stay tuned for the answers, when the class airs on MTV's year-old channel, whose other fill-in professors at various colleges have included rocker Marilyn Manson, author Tom Wolfe, rapper Nas, Arizona Sen. John McCain and singer Sting.

Peres described Iran's world view as being dominated by the notion that "America is the big Satan, and Israel is the little Satan"  

He said Iran's government was "a secret, sacred group of

ayatollahs and killers."

21-year-old Stephen Gallo said, "it's an insider view of the Middle East." 

"I didn't learn anything I didn't already know. But he's a Nobel Prize winner, and there have been a lot

worse Peace Prize winners - like Yasser Arafat."