Update: the Middle East and North Africa

Michael Krasny

Apr 19, 2011 at

Save Article

Failed to save article

Please try again

More than 5,000 protesters occupied the main square of Homs, Syria on Monday, vowing to occupy the site until President Bashar Assad is ousted. Meanwhile, amid fears of an escalating humanitarian crisis in the besieged rebel city of Misrata, U.S. officials defended America’s role in the NATO-led mission. We discuss recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa.

Guests:

Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Center

Larry Diamond, director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, professor of political science and sociology, and a founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy

Chris Toensing, editor of the Middle East Report, and executive director of the Middle East Research and Information Project

Sponsored

lower waypoint

next waypoint

Inside Mexico's Clandestine Drug Treatment Centers What’s Next for Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Violence Escalates in Sudan as Civil War Enters Second Year City Lights Chief Book Buyer Paul Yamazaki on a Half Century Spent “Reading the Room”NPR's Sarah McCammon on Leaving the Evangelical Church KQED Youth Takeover: We’re Getting a WNBA Team Rainn Wilson from ‘The Office’ on Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution Forum From the Archives: Remembering Glide Memorial's Cecil Williams Erik Aadahl on the Power of Sound in Film KQED Youth Takeover: How Can San Jose Schools Create Safer Campuses?