we have james gelvin, a prove shore at u.c.l.a. and author of "arab uprising: what everyone needs to know." it's been three years since that incredible day. how far do you think egypt has come, and is it going in the right direction? >> one of the problems with the way we looked at the egyptian rebellion is it's been oversold. unlike events in syria or libya, the egyptian rebelon was cut off after 18 days, and everything that has taken place after that is an unfolding of the way in which this rebellion was cut off. >> do you feel like what we are seeing in egypt is part of the revolutionary process? >> well, it's hard to say what is going on at the present time. on the one hand the muslim brotherhood government fell in many ways. it was increasicly authoritarian, inept, incompete ept in dealing with economic and security issues. on the other hand it was the first popularly elected president of egypt. on the other hand was up against a state-backed that would not budge. it was up against a judiciary, up against a security service an

. >> that was zeina khodr in pain route, lets turn now in james gelvin. thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> let's talk about this narrative we have seen come out since sharon's death that he became this great force for peace later in life, do you think that's fair? >> no, it's not particularly fair at all. the problem was there were negotiations going on ins o oslo in 2001, sharon had decided that those negotiations would be ov over. what he attempted to do is unilaterally impose people on the palestinians, done through the wall which would have set the borders of israel and the west bank. also done through the gaza withdrawal. gaza was a territory that the is reallies wanted to get out since 1967. if the unilateralism was to work, therefore what, would happen would be that there would nobody negotiations overboarders, no negotiations over jerusalem, no negotiations over right of return. in other words, what sharon was trying to do was to impose a unilateral set. luckily, that failed. >> but is that fair, show, since his decis

james gelvin, author of the "arab uprising, what everyone needs to know." >> we are too quick to jump to conclusions. most say it ended in 1999 with napoleon of france. we've been three years since the egyptian revolution. these things are spinning out. we see the situation in syria, seeing it throughout the arab world the one thing we learnt is that the global norms of human rights affected the middle east. it may not win, but there are people out there willing to risk the lives for the norms. >> it marks the 28th day that al jazeera colleagues have been in prison. mohamed fadel fahmy, peter greste, and mohammed badr are held without charges. we got a let on conditions inside prison. saying: in >> he goes tonne say our arrest and continued detention sends a clear message: >> well, they are not speaking, but at least they are sitting in the same room. for the first time the syrian government is meeting with the opposition. peace talks are happening in geneva this weekend after three years of civil war. the focus so far is humanitarian issues, the one topic the two sides agreed to disc