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April 2009

The Wounds of Gaza: A Report by Lancet

Two Surgeons from the UK, Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah and Dr Swee Ang, managed to get into Gaza during the Israeli invasion. Here they describe their experiences, share their views, and conclude that the people of Gaza are extremely vulnerable and defenseless in the event of another attack. The Lancet Global Health Network removed the report [...]

This Week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

4/29/09 Berkeley History Professor Beshara Doumani will be in conversation with Leila Farsakh, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  She is the author of Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation The full audio of the interview will be posted on Tuesday, May 5th,   A conversation with young Pakistani-American playwright [...]

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This Week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

4/22/09 Photo  Commemorating the 94th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide – Conversation with Matthew Jendian,Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fresno , as well as Stephan Astourian, Executive Director of the Armenian Studies Program and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Armenian Students Association at UC Berkeley will be commemorating the Armenian Genocide by holding a [...]

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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

4/15/09 Professor Mahmood Mamdani, prominent political scientist and anthropologist at Columbia University. Mahmood Mamdani’s new book is entitled “ Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror “        Dr. Renée Dreyfus, Curator in Charge of Ancient Art and Interpretation at Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco about a rare [...]

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This Week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa

  April 1st, 2009 In this week’s program, Shahram Aghamir speaks with Imran Aslam, veteran Pakistani journalist and president of Geo TV, Pakistan’ s premier television news channel, as well as Kamran Ali, Associate Professor Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Austin in Texas. Imran Aslam and Kamran Ali discuss the U.S. policy in [...]

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This Week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa

March 18th, 2008 In this week’s program, we mark the 6th anniversary of the full-scale invasion and occupation of Iraq. Shahram Aghamir speaks to independent journalist Dahr Jamail and Nabil Al-Takriti, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mary Washington. Later in the program,  Sanaz Meshkinpour and Shuka Kalantari take us through the tradition of [...]

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