9/11 Perspectives: Echoes in Arab World
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9/11 Perspectives: Echoes in Arab World

July 28, 2011 11:29 am (EST)

9/11 Perspectives: Echoes in Arab World
Explainer Video

This video is part of a special Council on Foreign Relations series that explores how 9/11 changed international relations and U.S. foreign policy. In this video, Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow and Director of CFR’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, discusses how the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2011 influenced a debate over social and economic challenges and opportunities in the Middle East.

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