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The wave of uprisings across the Arab World have dominated the talking points of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's flag ship interactive show World Have your Say and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic's Μύ Nuqtat Hewar Μύ(Talking Point) over the past few months.Μύ

In a special day of live programming from Cairo, Egypt on Friday 10 June, the twoΜύ interactive shows will connect with English and Arabic speaking audiences to reassess the Arab Uprisings six months on from the first protests and asks the question β€œwho has the power now?”

Broadcasting live on Friday 10 June across the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's International news services (ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service radio/online, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News television and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic -television/radio/online), presenters Ros Akins and Samir Farah will be in Cairo to talk to audiences across the region and around the world, as well asΜύspecial guests.

Nuqtat Hewar (Talking Point) on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic Μύ

The flagship show Nuqtat Hewar (Talking Point), presented by Samir Farah, will broadcast fromΜύ15:00ΜύGMTΜύFriday 10 June on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic andΜύthe television show will broadcast live on ONTV and via ontveg.com Μύin Egypt Μύ.Μύ

World Have your Say on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News (TV) and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service

FromΜύ16:00 GMT World Have your Say - the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's award-winning global interactiveΜύnews discussion show hosted by Ros Atkins, will air on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News (TV), followed atΜύ17:00 GMT with a special edition from Cairo on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service (radio/online).

World Have your Say uses different technology to enable as many people as possible in different parts of the world to join in the debate and interact with the programme.ΜύΜύ

Join the debate:

ΜύAudiences will be able to join in the special Arab Uprising programme via worldhaveyoursay.com, via twitter (@bbc_whys #whys #bbccairo) and facebook (ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ world have your Say).ΜύΜύ

ForΜύΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic,Μύaudiences can interactive with the show online via bbcarabic.com on the special online forum, via twitter ( @Nuqtat_HewarΜύ #bbccairoΜύ #bbca) and facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/hewarbbc )

About World Have Your Say:

Hosted on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's international news services – on radio ( ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service ) and on TV ( ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News) - the show is a global conversation with the agenda set by everyone taking part.

Presented by Ros Atkins, the show broadcasts weekly on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Newsn (TV) and daily on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service radio and gives audiences around the world the opportunity to take part in the big debates and offer opinions on the news agenda.

World HaveΜύYour Say was first launched in 1995 on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service radio, andΜύduring the past five years has produced shows from all around the world including a shack inΜύKliptown, Soweto, South Africa;Μύan orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti;ΜύMilles Collines hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, where many were saved from the genocide; a factory in Dharavi, Asia's biggest slum in Mumbai, India; and a refugee camp in Calais, France, where Afghans were waiting for the chance to cross the English Channel to Britain. The programme was also the first to broadcast live from Robben Island , South Africa , where Nelson Mandela had been imprisoned, on the former president's 90th birthday.ΜύIn 2008, the programme won gold at the 2008 Sony Radio Awards in the UK , in the Listener Participation category.

The television edition of the show launched on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News in 2011

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