Asef Bayat, Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern world at Leiden University, The Netherlands, talks about his new book Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn. In this groundbreaking work, professor Bayat meticulously outlines social struggles in Iran by student organizations, youth and women’s groups, … Continued
In tonight’s program, Khalil Bendib will talk with the University of Iowa Anthropologist, Dr. Ahmed Kanna, about the dark side of Dubai’s economic "miracle." Dr. Kanna is the author of Dubai in a Jagged World that was published in the Summer 2007 edition of the Middle East Report. Later in the program, Malihe Razazan will … Continued
In tonight’s program, we will bring you an update on the plight of Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli former nuclear technician who spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 years in solitary confinement for revealing details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. On a related topic we’ll also talk … Continued
In tonight’s program, we will bring you an update on Venunu Moedechi, an Israeli former nuclear technician who spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 years in solitary confinement for revealing details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. Later in the program, on the occasion of the publication … Continued
In this week’s program, Dr. Samera Esmeir will talk with Sahar Francis, a lawyer and human rights advocate in the Occupied Territories, about the state of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prisons. Later in the program we’ll bring you a conversation with George Charbak, the director of The Epic of Gilgamesh With A Long Prologue. … Continued
