Islam and Democracy in the Middle East (Audio)
Reza Aslan, writer and scholar of religions, discussed the recent wave of political protests throughout Egypt, Iran, and across the Middle...
Speakers: Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Felations
Tamara Cofman Wittes, Director, Middle East Democracy and Development and Project Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
March 12, 2009
Listen to Isobel Coleman, senior fellow at CFR, and Tamara Cofman Wittes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discuss economic and political development in the Middle East as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.
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