In this week’s program, Khalil Bendib will speak with activist Ramzy Obeid and Rayan El-Amine, an editor of Left Turn Magazine www.leftturn.org, about the recent political developments in Lebanon. Later in the program, members of Aswast music ensemble www.myspace.com/ensembleaswat will be performing in our KPFA studios. Aswat will have its summer concert at the … Continued
In this week’s program, UC Berkeley Assistant Professor Samera Esmeir will be in conversation with Jonathan Steele about his new book entitled Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq. Jonathan Steele is a Guardian columnist, roving foreign correspondent and author. During the program, we will also hear selections from Dedication, a music CD by Palestinian … Continued
May Day! May Day! Interviews with Labor activists Clarence Thomas and Monadel Herzallah; Arab Film Festival’s screeing of Captain Abu Raed.
Commemorating the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and discussing the politics of genocide denial in a conversation with Professor Stephan Astourian.
A recent talk by History Professor Ilan Pappe; Professor Daniel McGowan on Deryassin Massacre; also, a commemoration of Berber (Amazigh) Spring.
This week’s Protests in Egypt; also, the translation of Farrokhzad’s poetry.
In this week’s program, Khalil Bendib will be speaking to Dr. Hatem Bazian of U.C. Berkeley about the recent developments in two high-profile cases of government harassment against Muslims in the U.S. and what hidden agenda lurks behind this type of harassment. Later in the program, Malihe Razazan will speak to Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari … Continued
In this week’s program, Khalil Bendib will be speaking with Hossam al-Hamalawy about the state of organized political opposition in Egypt. Hossam al-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist, blogger and labor activist. He is currently a visiting fellow at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism. Later in the program, Malihe Razazan will talk with Sohrab Mohebbi, the … Continued
Five years after “Shock and Awe”, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa marks the five-year anniversary of the invasion and the occupation of Iraq by reflecting on how the country has fared in the wake of the unrelenting occupation.
