By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Foreign Service 2/25/09 TEHRAN, Feb. 24 — Dozens of Iranian students were arrested Monday after they protested a government decision to rebury troops who died in the Iran-Iraq war on the grounds of a Tehran university, Iranian student Web sites reported. The semiofficial Fars News Agency said that “a few people tried [...]
The Divine Sponge The Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus was a rare bird: a formal innovator immersed in tradition, a politically engaged artist who resisted political classification. Sinan Antoon looks back on his life and work. “What words can do / these days / Is almost nothing” wrote the Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus in The [...]
February 18, 2008 Women in Iraq; Critique of Israeli Government by Holocaust Survivors Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – February 18, 2009 at 7:00pm Click to listen (or download)
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Jean-Moïse Braitberg Discusses Israel in Le Monde Mr. President of the State of Israel, I am writing to you to intervene with the proper authorities to withdraw from the Yad Vashem Memorial dedicated to the memory of Jewish victims of Nazism, the name of my grandfather, Moshe Brajtberg, who was gassed at Treblinka in 1943, [...]
February 4, 2009 In this program, History Professor Beshara Doumani will be in conversation with Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi about his new book entitled Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Hegemony in the Middle East. In his new work, Professor Khalidi dissects the crucial dynamics of power in the Cold War between the [...]
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January 28, 2009 In this program, Malihe Rzazan speaks with Saree Makdisi, a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, about his new book entitled “Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation.” During the program, we also hear selections from The Wameed a music CD by very talented Palestinian musician Kamylia Jobran. Click here to [...]
Aired January 21, 2009 In this program we listen to the second part of a series on reparations for African victims of colonization and slavery. The week prior, we discussed the movement for reparations for slavery in the United States, and in tonight’s segment we look towards the other side of the Atlantic Ocean at [...]
