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Correspondent Calls

December 13, 2011: Webinar with Colin Woodard, author of "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America"
David Case | Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
November 17, 2011: Webinar with Nicholas Dunbar, author of "Devils Derivatives", on how financial innovation is killing the economy
David Case | Thursday, November 17th, 2011
August 11, 2011: Webinar with Joel Brinkley, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of "Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land"
David Case | Thursday, August 11th, 2011
July 21, 2011: Webinar with Elaine Sciolino, NY Times correspondent on "La Seduction"
David Case | Thursday, July 21st, 2011
June 9, 2011: James Foley, correspondent formerly in Libyan custody
David Case | Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Web Chats

Mideast uprisings - update on Saudi and Bahrain
Caryle Murphy | Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

On Tuesday March 22 at noon Eastern time, GlobalPost's Riyadh-based correspondent Caryle Murphy answered members' questions on the uprising in Bahrain and on whether the same could erupt in Saudi.

Facebook revolutions - update from Cairo
Jon Jensen | Friday, March 11th, 2011

Live chat: What's next for the Arab spring?

Sudan - world's next country, or civil war?
Tristan McConnell | Thursday, January 6th, 2011

The atmosphere is tense in Sudan ahead of a Jan. 9 referendum that will determine whether Southern Sudan will form a new country. Assuming that citizens vote for secession, will the government in the north willingly let go of the oil-rich region? Or will the country return to the long and bloody civil war that killed millions from 1983 to 2005? On Thursday, Jan. 6 at noon Eastern time, he joined us for a web chat on Sudan's dramatic fate. 

Indonesia's jihadi vigilantism
Patrick Winn | Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Indonesia's Islamic Defenders Front is a self-proclaimed moral police, a 15-million person strong “pressure group” sworn to rid the world's largest Muslim population of sin.Led by hooded men shouting Arabic battle cries, they target nightclubs, churches, liberal Muslims and embassies of countries considered hostile to Islam. GlobalPost's Patrick Winn just completed an investigation of the Islamic Defenders Front. On Thursday Dec. 16 at noon Eastern time, Patrick participated in one of GlobalPost's Web Chats. 

Turmoil in Iran
Jason Rezaian | Thursday, December 9th, 2010

On Thursday, Dec. 9, at noon, GlobalPost hosted a free web-chat with Jason Rezaian in Tehran. He answered questions about the increasingly tense situation in Iran — including questions about recent WikiLeaks allegations, the bomb targeting nuclear scientists, and the shadowy Stuxnet virus.