Overheard in Cairo

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Fawaz Gerges, chair in Middle East studies and international affairs at Sarah Lawrence College, and author of America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests? (Cambridge, 1999), and Frida Ghitis, independent writer on world affairs and author of The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television (Algora, 2001), on rumors, urban legends, and conspiracy theories in the Arab/Muslim world

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