john esposito is one of the leading voices on islam and understanding islam and the world. is a university professor at georgetown, the founding director of the center for muslim-christian understanding and the former head of the middle east studies association and many other organizations. he has a list 45 hooks, translated into 37 languages including weager. ahamid is a fellow at the brookings institution is a former research person and has been in the research field and will help us with that perspective. he has a new book out entitled " temptations of power." this book is one of the reasons we invited him. if you follow him on twitter, you quickly realize that his twitter account is one of the few dozen most important in the region for understanding what is going on. from last night, there are several solutions for fixing syria. error --quite a stream they are and it's good to follow him. michelle dunn is a senior associate at the carnegie endowment. she is the founding director of the hariri center and a former specialist on middle east affairs at the u.s. state depart