that was chris martenson of pic prosperity dot com. big deal time with a bust first time her. getting her name i'm pretty proud about how we're thrilled to have her today and she is from arabic one of the correspondents there and she's checking in with us on what's going on in the arab world in the wake of the arab spring and how the economy is shaking out over there after the political revolutions now beginning in two thousand the arab world underwent a major change the first spark began in tunisia but soon protests spread across the region syria egypt libya yemen just to name a few countries that were affected by it but it affected almost all arab countries in one way or another and while some protests like those in tunisia led to significant political changes other countries experienced ambiguous results now egypt opposed whose new mubarak but a military coup against elected president mohamed morsi brought the military back into power and some protests mutated into extreme forms of violence like the ongoing civil war in syria so now it's hard to generalize you know many of