FULLY BOOKED Insight with Jeremy Bowen: The Arab Uprisings
BBC Middle East correspondent from 1995 and Middle East editor since 2005, award-winning journalist Jeremy Bowen has spent much of the past two years documenting the game-changing moments in the history of the Middle East. He will be joining us in conversation with Samir Farah of BBC Arabic to discuss this historic era, which he documents in his new book The Arab Uprisings: The People Want the Fall of the Regime.
Bowen will be reflecting on the extraordinary heady days of early 2011, talking about the thoughts and feelings of the people involved, and how different situations evolved in the varying countries touched by the uprisings. As well as describing the atmosphere on the ground he will give us an insight into the political context, history and the evolving landscape of the Middle East.