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Bernard Guetta, Journalist and Columnist

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Douglas Herbert speaks to Bernard Guetta, a prize-winning French journalist and columnist. When the Arab Spring erupted a little over a year ago, Guetta was surprised about the timing of the uprisings, but not the fact that they happened. That's because he made his journalistic name as a reporter for French newspaper Le Monde covering the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and later, the fall of the Soviet Union.

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