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.
In this week’s program, Khalil Bendib will be in conversation with Eyal Weizman, Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the author of Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, a groundbreaking exposé of Israel’s terrifying re-conceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond. To contact us, please call 510-848-6767 ext. 632, or send us e-mail to info@vomena.org.
This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we bring you the second part of a two-part interview with Rutgers University Assistant Professor of history Tobi Jones on his recent article titled, “Saudi Alchemy: Water Into Oil, Oil Into Water.”
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This week, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa speaks with a Jerusalem-based AL-JAZEERA International Correspondent about the ongoing expansion of the Jewish colonies in the occupied East Jerusalem. We will also speak with two University of California, Berkeley students involved in the movement to get UC to divest from U.S. companies which profit from Israeli war crimes. Later in the program reporter Shuka Kalantari will speak with Iranian author Firoozeh Dumas about her book, Laughing Without an Accent.
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This week, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa brings you an update about the protests in Iran, and on the governments continued wave of repression from Dr. Mansour Farhang, professor of politics at Benigton College. We also bring you the second part of a speech by noted writer, journalist, and filmmaker Tariq Ali. His lecture was titled “Obama’s War in Afghanistan and Pakistan”. Click here to listen to VOMENA’s update on Iran’s protest, and a speech by filmaker Tariq Ali.
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This week, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa brings you the first part of a speech by noted writer, journalist, and filmmaker Tariq Ali delivered at the Twelfth Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture at Hampshire College on November 17.
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Khalil Bendib speaks with Tel Aviv University historian Dr. Shlomo Sand about his brand-new book,
“The Invention of the Jewish People,” which has become a best seller both in Israel and in France: Did
the world’s Jewry truly originate in Palestine, and if not, why does that myth persist to this day?
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa also presents “In Honor of a Hero,” Bay Area-based Algerian
Berber singer/songwriter Moh Alileche’s newest CD, which came out two months ago.
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January 28, 2009 In this program, Malihe Rzazan speaks with Saree Makdisi, a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, about his new book entitled “Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation.” During the program, we also hear selections from The Wameed a music CD by very talented Palestinian musician Kamylia Jobran. Click here to [...]