one of my concerns, people in this country aren't in the mood to see it or hear it. >> reporter: bruce feilerough those lands. he's the best selling author of "walking the bible." a soul-stirring journey of faith that was made into a pbs series. now, feiler has a new book. eneration freedom." and what he says in it just might surprise you. >> the reason i called this book "generation freedom" is because you have two-thirds of the muslim world is under 30 years old. that's a billion people in the world. consider the simple fact that 1 in 7 human beings todod is a muslim under 30. we have to get this right. >> reporter: by one estimate, the middle east will need to generate 200 million jobs by 2020. so, by sheer numbers, muslims are set to play a bigger role in world affairs than ever before. will it be hopeful or violent and chaotic? "generation freedom." that's very optimistic, people might say. >> i think what's happening is, you've got this huge population that wants a better world. for 30 years, the chief narrative of change that they've been presented has been the fundamental. come with u

just didn't want what was going to happen to them. >> bruce feiler?. >> the scan will take 5.2 seconds. >> reporter: the results just a few more to arrive. >> breathe in. hold your breath. >> reporter: then on a new york street corner, bruce called linda, just as he had the day he first heard he had cancer. on this day the news was very different. >> hey, wifey, how are you? there's nothing there. >> it was a good day. it was a good call. >> reporter: still, it is hard not to worry. what is it that you think of when you think of the future? >> now i just -- i can only think of the present. i don't want to jinx it. at any moment, you can get a scan and a call that's not so good that sends you right back. and it's been one year. it hasn't been five years. and if that five-year call, you're cancer free, you know, i think we'll start planning their wedding. >> now you know who is in charge of this family. >> reporter: for now, they live in the moment. april 17th, 2010. >> girlies, it's your birthday walk across the bridge. >> reporter: almost two years si

best-selling author bruce feiler says he's hopeful these youth revolutions will result in positive changeoke with him earlier. >> i'm really excited by your book because it's looking at the events that are happening right now in the middle east. and every night almost we're covering what's happening in syria and throughout the region. it's very easy to be pessimistic about the future what's happening there. but in your writing you're optimistic about it. you see hope. >> well, you and i have sat at this table. you've been kind enough to invite me a number of time in recent years to talk about this large question of can we get along. which is are we in a holy war between the west and islam? >> right. >> and in almost every one of these conversations somebody will say, where's the voice of the moderates? what are they doing? we're doing all this thing. and this suddenly seemed to me like an enormous event in that conversation we've all been having since 9/11. the reason i called my book "generation of freedom" is that these young people are really at the heart of the conversation. two-third

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