Women’s Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran offers diverse representations by women filmmakers, documentarists and artists about a broad spectrum of concerns of various forms and contents. Through these different formats, the program highlights the often-invisible threads that exist between fiction, documentary, and how they all share and integrate specific concerns and discourses about contemporary reality [...]
March 25th, 2009 In this week’s program, Khalil Bendib speaks with History Professor Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University about his new book “When and Why the Jewish People was invented.” a surprising best seller in Israel which challenges the conventional wisdom according to which today’s Jews are a national group with a biological connection [...]
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We mark International Women’s Day with a conversation with Iranian socialogist, Professor Haideh Moghissi from York University in Toronto, Canada. Later in the program we speak with independent Iranian-American film-maker Marjan Tehrani about her documentary, Arusi Persian Wedding.
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March, 4, 2009 A conversation with Patrick Craven of COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) about the latest action taken by a South African union that refused to offload an Israeli ship last month to protest Israel’s bloody massacres in Gaza and Michael Eisencher of USLAW in Alameda about nascent efforts from within [...]
Bassam Hajjar From : Banipal, the magazine of modern Arab literature in English . 1955 – 17 February 2009 With great sadness we report that Bassam Hajja died of cancer on 17 February. Born in Sûr (Tyre), Lebanon, he became a philosopher and a poet – with a Diploma of Advanced Study in Philosophy from the [...]
