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
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
