Voices Of The Middle East And North Africa

This week, we bring you the the second part of an indepth conversation about the root causes of the protests in Iraq with Balsam Mustafa, a PhD researcher in Modern Languages & Politics at the University of Birmingham Also this week, we remember the great palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish who passed away on August 9th 2008, following complications after major heart surgery in Houston, Texas. He was just 67.