Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – March 16, 2005

Join co-hosts Sureya and Steve as they focus on workers in the Middle East. We will interview Amjad Al-Jawhary from the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq and the Union of the Unemployed (UUI) www.uuiraq.org Al-Jawhary will discuss the economic conditions of the Iraqi workers and the effect of the US economic policies … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – March 9, 2005

Join co-hosts Malihe and khalil in a regionally diverse commemoration of March 8th, International Women’s Day. First, we’ll visit North Africa in an interview with Marnia Lazreg, Algerian-born Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – February 16, 2005

This week, John Young and Johayna Marlow of the Middle East Radio Project are joined in the studio by Dr. Jess Ghannam for an exclusive, in-depth interview. Based in San Francisco, Jess Ghannam is a psychoanalyst, human rights activist, and documentary filmmaker. He has been working on describing the psychological effects of torture, occupation, and … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – February 9, 2005

Join co-hosts Malihe and khalil for a special program featuring the very last video interview that the late Edward Said ever gave. This documentary has never been aired or screened in California before. You will hear a conversation with DD Guttenplan, the producer of this documentary, titled Edward Said: the Last Interview as well as … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – January 19, 2005

Part 1 of a 2 part series on the 1915 Armenian genocide. Rising nationalism due to capitalist development in Europe found its reflection in the Ottoman empire as a new, religiously and ethnically pure nation state. As the new "Turkish" identity was fabricated, the previous tolerance for diverse ethnic and religious structure of the Ottoman … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – January 12, 2005

Join Malihe and Khalil for this week’s program, during which we will first hear a conversation with Professor George Giacaman of Birzeit University in Ramallah, who is the founder and a board member of Muwatin, The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy. UC Berkeley history professor Beshara Doumani will talk to professor Giacaman about … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – January 5, 2005

This week, John Young and Johayna Marlow of the Middle East Project bring you a special program on the upcoming presidential election in Palestine. It seems as if every major broadcast network and news organization is intent upon portraying the election as “free and fair.” The reality is that the US, the UK, and Israel … Continued