Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – September 7, 2005
In this week’s program, we will first hear a discussion on an ambitious mural program in Palestine with two of the leading artists in that program, Bay Area muralist Susan Green and San Diego Fine Arts Professor John Halaka www.johnhalaka.com. Later in the program, Bay Area writer and poet Persis Karim will talk to Dr. … Continued
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – August 31, 2005
In this week’s program, UC Berkeley History Professor Beshara Doumani will talk to Israeli journalist Amira Hass, the only Jewish-Israeli journalist living in and reporting full-time from the occupied territories, about the Gaza withdrawal as well as what is taking place in West Bank and Jerusalem. Later in the program, we’ll feature an interview with … Continued
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – August 17, 2005
In this week’s program, Dr. Zeina Zaatari will talk to Yanar Mohammed, a women’s activist based in Iraq and the Chair of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, about Iraq’s new constitution and its treatment of women’s rights. Yanar will also talk about how she and other activists carry out their organizing work among … Continued
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – August 3, 2005
In this week’s program, Professor Mansour Farhang of Bennington College in Vermont will talk to us about Akabr Ganji, a dissident journalist and a prisoner of conscience, who has been on a hunger strike since June 11, as well as the plight of other political prisoners in Iran. To find out about Ganji’s case and … Continued
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – July 27, 2005
In this week’s program, we will hear UC Berkeley History Professor Beshara Doumani in conversation with filmmaker Juliano Mer Khamis about his award-winning film, Arna’s Children, which he and Danniel Danniel co-directed. Arna’s Children is an important and powerful documentary that follows the lives of several Palestinian children in the Jenin refugee camp from their … Continued
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – July 20, 2005
Join Malihe and Khalil for this week’s program, during which we have a conversation with Hassan Jum’a Awad Al Asade, President of the General Union of Oil Workers of Iraq, and Fleh Abbood Umara, General Secretary of the same union. Later in the program, we’ll discuss two movies featured in this year’s Jewish Film Festival … Continued