Arab

While some call Egypt and Tunisia shining models for the Arab Spring’s revolutions – isn’t it more accurate to see it as an exception to the rule of civil war? To answer the question we speak with Zachary Lockman, professor at New York University.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with musicians Michael Rivard, Brahim Fribgane and Hasan Hakmoun about their work with ensemble Club d’Elf. It is a Boston-based group that performs variations on the ancient Moroccan style of gnawa.

Assia Boundaoui reports from Chicago on young Arab-Americans there who are pondering their Arab-American identities as their ancestral homelands are transformed by political upheaval.