On Friday, October 27, Vali Nasr, author of The Shia Revival, Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and Professor of Middle East and South Asia Politics at the Naval Postgraduate School, joined Trudy Rubin, foreign affairs columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer for an in-depth and timely conversation on the rise of Iran as a regional power and how the conflicts within Islam will affect U.S. policy in the Middle East.