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. >> i am here with vali nasr, professor of international studies at tufts university and author of the new book, "forces of fortune" the rise of the new muslim middle class and what it will mean for our world. you are the new muslim middle class? >> it is people whose livelihoods are connected to private sector who has integrated into the world economy. they are businessmen, their finance years. there also professionals that they are people who are like middle class and asia, latin america, people we identifies part of the new globalization forces, new economic forces and we often don't see them in the middle class. we always think about extremist or authoritarian government or fundamentalist but we don't think about the social classes in the muslim world, the way it connects to economic and wide to the matter in terms of all the things we think about the muslim world. >> of focus on i ran in this book. how the birds are the social classes and iran? >> again when we think about iran we don't realize iran has a vibrant middle class. there has been a significant amount of economic privat

. >> vali nasr come author of the forces of the fortune comes before very much. >> thank you. it politics professor argues barack obama election marks a new era in u.s. politics based largely on many demographic changes. of the women's national democratic club hosts this 50 minute event. [applause] .. >> the virginia races were at stake including the governorship in effect. in 1981 the new jersey governor's race coming closest in history, tom keane, a republican be is appointed by 1800 votes. history is repeating itself. know it is not. the reagan era which was 1981 to be best and characterized as the end the young and that not poor and not black. white middle-class middle aged suburban married mom and dad kids they can grasp that vision very well. it is not the vision just we he grasped the portrayed over and over again in the popular culture brother leave it to beaver in the 60s or the cause the show show -- the cause the show in the eighties but democrats did not do well. win but majority was un-young, un-black, un-poor. how badly? we know but just bear with me on two stati

. >> i'm here with vali nasr professor of international studies at tufts university and author of a new book "forces of fortune." who are the new muslim middle class? >> well, it's people who's livelihoods are connected to the private sector, it's integrated in the world economy, they're businessmen, their financiers and they're also professionals but they are people who are like middle classes in asia, latin america, people we identify as part of the new globalization forces, new economic forces. and we often don't see them in the middle class. we always think about extremists or authoritarian government or fundamentalists. we don't think about social classes in the muslim world the way in which they connect to economics and why do they matter in terms of all the things that we think about the muslim world. >> you focus on iran in this book. how diversion are the social classes in iran? >> well, again when we think about iran we don't realize that iran has a fairly vibrant middle class. there's been significant amount of economic privatization in iran in the 1980s and 1990s. it produce