Digital Democracy and the Arab Spring

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In a discussion moderated by Washington Post political writer Peter Slevin, a panel of foreign journalists including Al-Jazeera (Arabic) Washington Bureau Chief Abderrahim Foukara, New York Times reporter Nadim Audi, and Saudi blogger and multimedia journalist Ahmed Al Omran convene to exchange ideas about social media, revolution, and the Middle East.

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