Tariq Ramadan and The Arab Awakening

Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the Oxford University and the author of The Arab Awakening: Islam and the New Middle East.

He discusses:

--  just how Islamic are the mass movements across the Middle East

--  why he refuses to refer to the uprisings as the 'Arab Spring'

--  that Western countries were involved in training the cyber-dissidents, while at the same point in time allies of the very same governments

--  if the uprisings caught him by surprise, as it did most of the world

--  howto reconcile the role of Islam, Islamists, Secularism and Politcs

--  the real socio-political change that needs to take place: in education, equality, women's rights, social justice

--  the Muslim Brotherhood and what kind of Islamist rulers will they be for Egypt

--  why he is not a member of the Brotherhood, which was founded by his grandfather

--  the way forward for the Arab world