This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we have a conversation with Professor Sinan Antoon of New York University about the current political situation in Iraq as the stalemate in forming a government continues.
Later in the program, we’ll bring you the second part of our conversation with Iraqi film maker Mohamed Al-Daradji, about his award winning feature film Ibne Babel, or Son of Babylon, a story about a grandmother and grandson in occupied Iraq.
his week, we have a conversation with Kamran Ali, an associate professor of anthropology and acting director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Later in the program, we’ll bring you the first of two part conversation with Iraqi film maker Mohamed Al-Daradji about his award winning feature film Ibne Babel, or Son of Babylon, a story about a grandmother and grandson in occupied Iraq.
This week on Voices of Middle East & North Africa, a conversation with Paul Larudee, who was about the Free Gaza peace flotilla that was attacked by Israel forces in May 2010. Later in the program Palestine-American artist, writer and activist Joy Totah Hilden, author of “Bedouin Weaving of Saudi Arabia.”
A conversation with Eyal Weizman, the Director of the Center of Research Architecture at Goldsmith College in London, and the other of “Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation.” We also bring you an interview with Firoozeh Dumas, author of “Laughing Without An Accent,” a novel about life as an Iranian-American.
A conversation with Israeli-born UCLA history professor Gabriel Piterberg about last weeks Israeli attack on the Free Gaza flotilla. Later in the program, Iranian-American hip-hop artist Ali Abdollahi of the group, “Revolution of the Mind,” talks about his music and about the protests against the fraudulent Presidential election in Iran.
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Women Without Men
Women With Men
Two different perspectives about the changing role in Turkey vise a vie the U.S. and Israel. In light of the recent attack on the Free Gaza flotilla, and the killing of nine Turkish activists by Israel commandos. Later in the program we’ll speak with award-winning Iranian-American visual artist Shirin Neshat about her first full-length motion picture titled, “Women Without Men.”
This week, we bring you audio excerpts of, “American Radicals: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein,” an award-winning documentary on the life and work of the scholar. Professor Finkelstein is author of many books on the Palestine/Israel conflict.
