Summary: John's boralogue kicks off the show with an extensive examination of the profound paradigm change that has occurred in the Middle East since the onset of the Arab Spring This puts us in the post-post-Oslo peace process period the key to which is a collapse of an entire century of pan-Arabism followed by the reemergence of regional ethnic and religious identities This places Christians in the region in severe difficulty Then we'll pursue this thread by means of a conversation with former Afghani businessman Nasir Shansab www shansab com author of Silent Trees A Novel of Afghanistan to examine why
