Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Jerusalem, a modern history; also, in search of Iraq’s artistic life
In tonight's program, Khalil Bendib speaks with Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies and Birzeit University Professor of sociology Salim Tamari http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=68 about an essay published in the Jerusalem quarterly titled "Jerusalem's Ottoman modernity," in which he depicts a very different Jerusalem around the turn of the 20th century than the one we are … Continued
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – The wall between Gaza & Egypt; unfiltered Internet access for Iranians!
In tonight's program, Malihe Razazan speaks with Hossam el Hamalawy, an Egyptian journalist and an activist, about the nearly completed underground wall between Gaza and Egypt. Later in the program, Shuka Kalantari will speak with Austin Heap, a Bay Area based technologist, about how he created a software program designed to provide unfiltered Internet access … Continued
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Abunimah & Blankfort on Israel; also, A Collective Narrative of Tehran
In tonight's program, Khalil Bendidb will have a conversation with Ali Abunimah, co-Founder of Electronic Intifada, http://electronicintifada.net and Middle East analyst and activist Jeff Blankfort in which they will each comment on an interview we first taped and aired last month with Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT on the subject of the boycott, divestment and … Continued