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April 2011

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The Green Wave Documentary; Protests in Syria

By on April 25th, 2011

In this week’s program, we discuss the wave of protests that has been
shaking Syria since the middle of March. Shahram Aghamir speaks with Bassam Haddad. Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program at George-Mason University and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. Later in the program, Malihe Razazan will have a conversation with Ali Samad Ahadi about his powerful documentary, The Green Wave, that narratesIran’s 2009 post presidential election protests and the regime’s brutal crackdown.

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Middle East, Palestine, This Week on VOMENA, Yemen No comments yet

Yemen Protest; Right for an Education in Palestine

By on April 25th, 2011

This week we speak with a University of Richmond political scientist about the uprising in Yemen. We will also speak with two Palestinian activists about the Right for an Education in Palestine campaign and their U.S. tour.

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Remembering Juliano Mer Khamis; Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Museum Boycott

By on April 7th, 2011

This week we remember Juliano Mer Khamis, leading Palestinian rights activist, actor, filmmaker and Artistic Director of Freedom Theater in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West bank. He was shot by unknown assailants in Jenin on Monday, April 4, as he was leaving the theatre. ater in the program, Khalil Bendib speaks with Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri who are among more than 1,000 artists calling for a boycott of the $800 million Guggenheim Museum being built in Abu Dhabi over the rights of migrant workers at the constructions site.

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