Arab Talk: Hisham Melham and Diana Buttu

Arab Talk Co-Hosts Jess Ghannam and Jamal Dajani interview Hisham Melham and Diana Buttu about the current situation in the Arab World.

Hisham Melhem is the Washington-based correspondent for Annahar, the leading Lebanese daily, Al-Qabas, the Kuwaiti daily, and Radio Monte Carlo in France. He is currently the host of "Across the Ocean", a weekly talk show for Al-Arabiya, the Dubai based satellite station.

Mr. Melhem received his BA in Philosophy from Villanova University in 1976; he was awarded the 1998 Alumni Medallion, an honor bestowed upon alumni of the University for exceptional professional and personal achievements. In 1976, Mr. Melhem joined the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Upon the completion of his course work, he became a full time journalist and commentator based in Washington.

Mr. Melhem's writings appeared in publications ranging from the literary journal Al-Mawaqef to the LA Times, Middle East Report, Middle East Insight, The Middle East Policy. He is the author of Dual Containment: the Demise of a fallacy, published by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. In addition, Mr. Melhem appears regularly on a number of television programs such as the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, The Charlie Rose show, as well as National Public Radio and its national affiliates.

Mr. Melhem speaks regularly at college campuses, think tanks and interest groups on US-Arab relations, intra Arab relations, Arab-Israeli issues, media in the Arab World, Arab images in American media , US public policies and the Arab World, and other related topics