In this week’s program, Khalil Bendib will be in conversation with Eyal Weizman, Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the author of Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, a groundbreaking exposé of Israel’s terrifying re-conceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond. In exploring Israel’s methods to transform the landscape itself into a tool of control, Hollow Land lays bare the political system at the heart of this complex and terrifying project of late-modern colonial occupation.
During the program, we will also hear selections from music CD “I am Eve” by Iranian sisters Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa we speak with Sohrab Behdad professor of economics at Denison University about the state of labor in Iran and current anti-worker laws in that country. Later in the program Cindy Correy and muralist Susan Green will talk to us about Olympia Rafah Solidarity Project.
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – May 5, 2010 at 7:00pm
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we speak with Egyptian journalist and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy about the recent labor movement in Egypt. Later we’ll talk about the Friday Night Palestinian Film Series in Berkeley. Finally we’ll here the music of Bay Area based music ensemble Aswet.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we bring you the second part of a two-part interview with Rutgers University Assistant Professor of history Tobi Jones on his recent article titled, “Saudi Alchemy: Water Into Oil, Oil Into Water.”
Later in the program, we interview Palestinian-American authors Susan Abulhawa about her debut novel, “Mornings in Jenin.”
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we begin a series of programs on the politics of water in the Middle East, with a two-part interview with Rutgers University Assistant Professor of history Tobi Jones on his recent article titled, “Saudi Alchemy: Water Into Oil, Oil Into Water.” “
Later in the program, we update you on the ongoing uc student senate battle to divest from US corporations profiting from Israeli war crimes.
And last but not least, on the occasion of national poetry month, NYU professor Sinan Antoon will read from the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish‘s last book of prose “In the Absence of Presence.”
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – April 14, 2010 at 7:00pm
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Khalil Bendib speaks with Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies and Birzeit University Professor of sociology Salim Tamari 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 familiar with today.
Later in the program, Malihe Razazan speaks with Hadani Ditmars, a co-editor of New Internationalist, who went to Iraq in February of this year to explore whatever is left of the art in post-invasion Iraq.
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