This show first aired on July 24, 2008. It is a roundtable discussion conducted by Leon Charney with Steven Cook and Lane Green on world events and events in the Middle East. And it's combined with a recent interview this year (2014) with the Middle East Expert Steven Cook. Steven A. Cook is the Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a noted expert on the Arab world and the Middle East. He is also the author of "The Struggle for Egypt" and "Ruling But Not Governing." Lane Greene is an Author, a business and finance correspondent for The Economist based in Berlin, and he also writes frequently about language for the newspaper and online Original Broadcast date: August 31, 2014 With interviews from July 24, 2008