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10:00President Obama in Cairo

A preview of President Obama's visit to the Middle East: his message in Cairo and the future of U.S. relations with the Muslim world.

Guests

Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland, and author of "The Stakes: America in the Middle East" (Westview Press)

Aaron David Miller, public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former advisor to six U.S. Secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotiations; author, most recently of "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace"

Abderrahim Foukara, Washington burea chief of Al Jazeera Arabic

Akbar S. Ahmed, chair of Islamic studies at American University

11:00Neil White: "In the Sanctuary of Outcasts" (William Morrow)

A former magazine publisher, convicted of bank fraud, about what he learned as an inmate in a federal prison which also housed the last leprosy colony in the continental U.S.

Guests

Neil White, award-winning former publisher of "New Orleans" Magazine, "Coast" Magazine, and "Coast Business Journal."

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