In tonight’s program, we will bring you an update on the suppression of dissent and the worsening human rights violations in Iran with Elise Auerbach of Amnesty International and Paris-based Hajar Smouni of Reporters without Borders. Later in the program, Palestinian labor activist Monadel Herzellah and the co-founder of Break the Silence Mural and Arts … Continued
Occupation 101 looks at the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In this week’s program, we will listen to a talk by British journalist Jonathan Cook. Jonathan Cook is based in Israel and is the author of Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State. Later in the program, filmmaker Florence Strauss will talk to Khalil Bendib about her documentary film, Between Two … Continued
In this week’s program, Malihe Razazan will speak with two experts on the fate of Iraq’s libraries since the Anglo-American occupation of 2003; Tareq Y Ismael, Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary and Nabil Al-Tikriti, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mary Washington. Later in the program, Dr. Zeina Zaatari … Continued
In this week’s program, we will listen to a conversation with two prominent Iraq labor unionists who are currently touring the United States; General Secretary of the General Union of Oil Employees, Faleh Abood Umara, as well as President of the Electrical Utility Workers Union, Hashmeya Mushin Hussein. Later in the program, we will have … Continued
U.C. Berkeley History Professor Beshara Doumani will be in conversation with Sociology Professor Salim Tamari about the structural impact of the 1967 War on Palestinian life and national movement specifically, and on Arab society, identity and political culture in general. Salim Tamari is Director of Institute of Jerusalem Studies, Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University … Continued
