Tonight marked the second edition of our live monthly series The Big Story. At Florence Gould Hall, our editor, David Remnick, moderated a panel discussion on the Middle East revolutions, featuring the magazine’s correspondents Steve Coll and Wendell Steavenson, the Princeton professor Amaney Jamal, and the Egyptian activist Marwa Sharafeldin. Watch a video of the full event below.
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Fault Lines
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News Desk
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