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The AP's Pulitzer-winning series focused on the New York Police Department's secret monitoring of Muslim communities, and The Takeaway has followed this story since the AP began its series last August. Debbie Almontaser, Board Chair of Muslim Consultative Network and coalition member of Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition, and Bob Hennelly, contributing editor for politics and investigations for our co-producer WNYC, offer their insights into the series itself and its fallout, for the police, politicians and citizens, in New York and beyond.

Listeners, what have you been hearing from your contacts in the Middle East region? Call us with your thoughts and feelings about the uprisings there. Plus, Debbie Almontaser, an educator and board chair of the Muslim Consultative Network, whose brother lives in Yemen, will discuss her views on what's happening in the Middle East. 

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