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An update on the situation in Gaza, prospects for a cease-fire and the challenges facing the incoming Obama administration in the region.
David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for "The New York Times" and author of the upcoming book, "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power."
Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief for Al-Arabiya TV, and Washington correspondent for "An-Nahar"
David Makovsky, senior fellow and director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
In a follow-up to her international best-seller ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran,’ Azar Nafisi discusses growing up in Iran before the fall of the Shah, her family’s complicated personal and political history, and how the Islamic revolution changed the country she loved.
Azar Nafisi, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies and author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
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