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The wave of uprisings across the Arab World have dominated the talking points of the BBC's flag ship interactive show World Have your Say and BBC Arabic's   Nuqtat Hewar  (Talking Point) over the past few months. 

In a special day of live programming from Cairo, Egypt on Friday 10 June, the two  interactive shows will connect with English and Arabic speaking audiences to reassess the Arab Uprisings six months on from the first protests and asks the question “who has the power now?”

Broadcasting live on Friday 10 June across the BBC's International news services (BBC World Service radio/online, BBC World News television and BBC Arabic -television/radio/online), presenters Ros Akins and Samir Farah will be in Cairo to talk to audiences across the region and around the world, as well as special guests.

Nuqtat Hewar (Talking Point) on BBC Arabic  

The flagship show Nuqtat Hewar (Talking Point), presented by Samir Farah, will broadcast from 15:00 GMT Friday 10 June on BBC Arabic and the television show will broadcast live on ONTV and via ontveg.com  in Egypt  . 

World Have your Say on BBC World News (TV) and BBC World Service

From 16:00 GMT World Have your Say - the BBC's award-winning global interactive news discussion show hosted by Ros Atkins, will air on BBC World News (TV), followed at 17:00 GMT with a special edition from Cairo on BBC World Service (radio/online).

World Have your Say uses different technology to enable as many people as possible in different parts of the world to join in the debate and interact with the programme.  

Join the debate:

 Audiences will be able to join in the special Arab Uprising programme via worldhaveyoursay.com, via twitter (@bbc_whys #whys #bbccairo) and facebook (BBC world have your Say).  

For BBC Arabic, audiences can interactive with the show online via bbcarabic.com on the special online forum, via twitter ( @Nuqtat_Hewar  #bbccairo  #bbca) and facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/hewarbbc )

About World Have Your Say:

Hosted on the BBC's international news services – on radio ( BBC World Service ) and on TV ( BBC World News) - the show is a global conversation with the agenda set by everyone taking part.

Presented by Ros Atkins, the show broadcasts weekly on BBC World Newsn (TV) and daily on BBC World Service radio and gives audiences around the world the opportunity to take part in the big debates and offer opinions on the news agenda.

World Have Your Say was first launched in 1995 on BBC World Service radio, and during the past five years has produced shows from all around the world including a shack in Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa; an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Milles Collines hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, where many were saved from the genocide; a factory in Dharavi, Asia's biggest slum in Mumbai, India; and a refugee camp in Calais, France, where Afghans were waiting for the chance to cross the English Channel to Britain. The programme was also the first to broadcast live from Robben Island , South Africa , where Nelson Mandela had been imprisoned, on the former president's 90th birthday. In 2008, the programme won gold at the 2008 Sony Radio Awards in the UK , in the Listener Participation category.

The television edition of the show launched on BBC World News in 2011

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