video 1.0 Vimeo http://vimeo.com/ National Endowment for Democracy http://vimeo.com/nedontheweb 1 <object width="320" height="240"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5380903&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5380903&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="320" height="240"></embed></object> 320 240 6275 Joshua Muravchik discusses his new book, The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East, which consists of profiles of seven leading democracy activists from the Middle East (six from the Arab world and one from Iran). Some critics argue that the kinds of Middle Eastern liberals portrayed in his book, however heroic or admirable they may be, are too small in number, too Westernized, too shallowly rooted in their societies, and too secular in their orientation to be an effective engine of democratic change in the region. Mr. Muravchik considers this question in his presentation, and it is the focus of the subsequent discussion among commentators Ziad Asali, Laith Kubba, and Tamara Cofman Wittes. http://ts.vimeo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/173/819/17381964_200.jpg 200 150 5380903