CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The New Arabs August 24, 2014
This is about an hour. [applause] well, thanks so much to everybody for coming out. Let me say a few words about the book and its genesis. I lived in the middle east a lot in the 70s when i was just a kid, and i actually lived for a while off of Tahrir Square, the main drag, the main Center Square of cairo. I saw a round about. And many of the sort of important streets in cairo come down into it, and then you go off to the bridge from it and so forth. Be so its a little bit difficult to avoid that square. Its central to the citys traffic pattern. So having it occupied is rather a hassle for dr...