FLASHPOINTS

Flag of Egypt all over Tahrir Square, pic by Ramy Raoof

Today on Flashpoints: Mubarak Steps Down and turns his power over to the military:We’ll take a close look at that the proposed transition and the hopes and fears of the millions of Egyptians that sent the strong packing: Also as todat marks the 32nd anniversay of the Iranian Revolutions, we’ll tale a look at some of the lessons that can be learned from what happened in iran after the rev. And we’ll speak o to an Iraqi poet and Novelist about the suppresion of arts under the Murbarak regime an update on the people’s revolt in Egypt, as thousands of Egyptian workers join the protests in Liberation Square:Also a look at how women, and young women in particular, have taken the lead in the movement for a free Egypt: And an update on FBI repression and raids against US activists….

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GUESTS:

Mona El-Ghobashy is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University

Asef Bayat is Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the co-author of “Being Young and Muslim and author of “Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East

Beshara Doumani is professor of history at UC Berkeley and a frequent contributor to Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Sinan Antoon Iraqi novelist and poet