In Egypt, the biggest, most influential country in the Arab world, voters turned out en masse for today's elections, which will have a major impact region wide. With 40 parties and thousands of candidates for the lower house of Parliament, the election itself was already a complex undertaking. Recent protests against the military regime have made the process more uncertain than ever. Meanwhile, Syria accused the Arab League of economic warfare. We look at changes -- for better or worse -- wrought by the "Arab Spring."
Egypt Goes to the Polls with the Arab World in Flux
Credits
Guests:
- Shadi Hamid - Contributing writer,The Atlantic; senior fellow, Brookings Institution; assistant research professor of Islamic studies, Fuller Seminary; co-founder, Wisdom of Crowds, a podcast, newsletter - @shadihamid
- Mona Eltahawy - syndicated columnist - @monaeltahawy
- Robert Pastor - American University
- Borzou Daragahi - BuzzFeed News - @borzou
- Steven A. Cook - senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations - @stevenacook