The Story

Nawal El Saadawi is an 80-year-old writer who lives in Cairo who Dick spoke with when former President Mubarak stepped down. She says the revolution has been betrayed and she is fighting to get it back on track.

West Point professor Elizabeth Samet returns to The Story, this time to talk about Walt Whitman and the time Whitman spent witnessing the effect of fighting on soldiers in the Civil War.

As you know, one story often leads to another on this program. Last week, Dick spoke with Nyagatare Valens and his mother, Anisie about what their family experienced during the Rwandan war. It turns out our interpreter for that interview, Josephine Mujawaamariya, has a story of her own.Also in this episode: the story of a riverkeeper.

Mubin Shaikh spent two years as an intelligence service mole inside an Islamist cell which was allegedly plotting to blow up Canada's Parliament buildings and behead the Prime Minister. Mubin lost his standing within the Muslim community for his role, and became a controversial figure when it was revealed that he was paid $300,000 for his services.  Mubin tells host Dick Gordon that despite everything, he would do it again as a matter of both principle and faith.