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Today marks the one year anniversary of the uprising in Egypt that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Over the past twelve months, the country has taken big steps to transition to a more democratic government. Egypt rewrote its constitution and the first freely elected parliament in more than 60 years held their first session this week.

Journalist Robin Wright reports on the rebellions against extremists and autocrats in the Arab world in her new book, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World.

Jailed Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi has been sentenced to eight years in prison for alleged espionage. President Obama has called for her release, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged the country’s chief prosecutor to fairly examine the case. But Robin Wright, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the author of Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, says Saberi may be caught in the crossfire during a period of extraordinary tensions within Iran and between Iran and the US.

For more on this case, watch the video below from the Associated Press.

A plan hatched two years ago by a minor undersecretary in the Treasury Department may have a big impact on U.S. foreign policy in Iran.

Robin Wright, diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Post and author of Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, on McCain's Middle East gaffe and the anniversary of the Iraq war.

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In its coverage of the Middle East, the Western media has focused almost entirely on Iraq. In Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, Washington Post reporter Robin Wright draws on her three decades of experience to provide a more balanced view of the region's people, ideas, ...