Open Book: Jeremy Bowen & Arab writers, Michael Jacobs

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Society & Culture, Books

4.2 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mariella Frostrup talks to Jeremy Bowen about his book on the Arab Spring and we discuss how writers have responded to these uprisings in the Middle East. And the travel writer Michael Jacobs describes his journey down the Magdalena River in Columbia and his meeting with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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