WW1 & the Arab Spring

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Is there a thread linking World War One and the momentous events of the Arab Spring, the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests that began in Tunisia in 2010? Khaled Fahmy, professor of history at the American University in Cairo, believes they are intimately related. Jordanian theatre director Lina al-Tal joins the conversation with Lyse Doucet, from Jordan: Redrawing the map of the Middle East, part of The War That Changed The World. (Photo: Anti-Mubarak protestors in Tahrir Square, Cairo, February 4, 2011. (Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images)