Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – January 16, 2008

In this week’s program, Shahram Aghamir talks with leading Marxist thinker, critic and commentator, Professor Aijaz Ahmad, about the ongoing political crisis in Pakistan and its implications for the U.S. global strategy and its plans for West Asia, the region that is also known as the Middle East. His new book is entitled Afghanistan, Iraq … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – January 2, 2008

In this week’s program, we will hear a talk by Bard College Professor of Social Studies Joel Kovel, the author of Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine. In an assault on academic freedom by organizations mobilized to suppress criticism of Israel’s policies, Professor Kovel has been targeted for challenging the historical Zionist … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – December 26, 2007

In this week’s program, we will hear Professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer presenting their new book entitled The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy. Stephen Walt is Belfer Professor of International Relations at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. John Mearsheimer is R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – December 19, 2007

In this week’s program, Khalil Bendib speaks with Dr. Azzedine layachi about the bombings which afflicted the city of Algiers last week as well as the current state of Franco-Algerian relations. Dr. Azzedine Layachi is Associate Professor of Political Science at St. John’s University in New York. He is the author of Economic Crisis and … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – November 14, 2007

In tonight’s program, we will bring you a talk on the subject of Academic Freedom by Professor Norman Finklestein, who was recently denied tenure for his courageous stance on the question of Israel/Palestine and resigned under pressure from his post as professor of History at De Paul University in Chicago. Later in the program, we … Continued