The Rise of A Middle Class in the Middle East
AUGUST 24, 2010 TUESDAY AT 3PM CT

 
 
A force for change is welling up in the Middle East - the rise of a mobile middle class of entrepreneurs, investors and consumers. Although almost invisible to the West, our guests see in this newest of social movements the key to tipping the scales of power away from extremism.

Guests
  • Vali Nasr, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tuft University, senior fellow of the Dubai Initiative run by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
  • Pamela Ann Smith, co-founder and director of PASCOM, an international editorial and marketing intelligence organization and a writer for the Middle East magazine, CNBC Europe Business and Institutional Investor
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