As always, young people were at the heart of the uprisings: they were the first out on the streets to demonstrate, the least likely to be cowed, and the most likely to raise a voice against the authorities. The Focus podcast speaks to young people from those countries undergoing revolution, but who are based in the UK. How were they swept up by the Arab spring? What is their take on events?
Hugh Muir then discusses the possibilities and dangers that will confront the region in 2012 with The Guardian's foreign leader writer David Hearst and Wadah Khanfar, former director general of the al-Jazeera network.
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