Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – June 27, 2007
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
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – June 20, 2007
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
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – June 6, 2007
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
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – May 16, 2007
In this week’s program, we will be commemorating 59th anniversary of the 1948 Al Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic) that resulted in violent uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their ancestral home. We will hear a talk by History Professor Ilan Pappe about his groundbreaking book entitled "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine." Professor Pappe … Continued
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – May 9, 2007
In this week’s program, U.C. Berkeley History Professor Beshara Doumani will be in conversation Israeli historian and journalist Tom Segev about his newly published book entitled “1967: Israel, the War and the Year that Transformed the Middle East.” During the program, we will also hear selections from the Souk System, a music CD by prominent … Continued