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December 2010

Iranian activist Reza Shahabi in Evin Prison; Iranian band ‘Abjeez’

This week on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, we speak to the wife of jailed labor union activist Reza Shahabi who began a dry hunger strike on December 4th in Evin Prison in Tehran. We also talk to the director of the international campaign for human rights in Iran about the plight of jailed Iranian labor unionists. Also, Shuka Kalantari speaks with Sweden-based Iranian musicians Melody and Safoura Safavi of the band Abjeez.

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Cartoon: Taliban Bozo

For more of Khalil Bendib’s cartoons, visit The Pen is Funnier than the Sword.

Elections in Egypt; HIV/AIDS in the Middle East & North Africa

This week, we’ll get an update on the last Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Egypt for our regular contributor in Cairo, activist and journalist, Hossam El Hamalawy. Later in the program, on the occasion of World AIDS Day, we’ll bring you an in depth discussion about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Middle East and north Africa region with professors Kaveh Khosnood of Yale University and Laith Abu Raddad of Cornell University in Qatar