Happy Friday.
We're following two big global stories today: the transition in Saudi Arabia and the political upheaval in next-door Yemen. There are big US security interests at stake in both places. Guests include Fawziah Al-Bakr, a professor of sociology at King Saud University in Riyadh, longtime New York Times correspondent Robert Worth, Saudi Arabia expert Caryle Murphy, BBC Middle East analyst Sebastian Usher, and Lebanese satirist Karl Sharro.
Plus photojournalist Natalie Keyssar on Brooklyn's Dancehall scene.