After the Arab Spring

Our guest, Ethan Chorin, longtime Middle East scholar and former U.S. diplomat, served in Tripoli from 2004 to 2006, part of the team that re-established a formal diplomatic presence there. An expert on Libya and adviser to the Obama administration, he details the struggle for democracy following the Arab Spring and the end of the 41-year reign of Muammar al-Gaddafi in “Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution.”