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Protests in Egypt

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 (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

We get the latest on the protests in Egypt against President Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power for nearly three decades. We’ll also check in with members of the local Egyptian community to get their reactions to recent developments.

Guests:

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan organization focused on foreign policy issues, former member of the National Security Council staff for President George H.W. Bush and former director of policy planning in the State Department for President George W. Bush

Sarah Ismail, member of the Egyptian Student Association at UC Berkeley (ESAB), dual citizen of the U.S. and Egypt and masters student in UC Berkeley's School of Public Health

Sherif Hamdy, policy associate for YouTube who grew up in Egypt, and has family there

Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland, senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and former adviser to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and the Iraq Study Group

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