On this week’s program, we’ll have a conversation with political scientist Gamze Yasar about the upcoming referendum on Turkey’s constitution on Sept 12^th, the 30^th anniversary of 1980’s military Coup d’etat in Turkey.

Then, later in the program, we’ll speak with filmmaker and co-founder of international solidarity movement Adam Shapiro abou the upcoming U.S. boat to Gaza that will take place some time this fall.

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

This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we’ll have a conversation with a Palestinian author about the reason for Israel’s loss of legitimacy in world opinion. Also we pay tribute to thousands of political prisoners secretly executed in Iran in 1998, and the ongoing international campaign to help those currently detained.

Finally, members of the Aswat Music Ensemble will discuss their show at the La Pena Cultural Community Center in Berkeley, California.

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This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we have Iranian woman activist Sussan Tahmasebi and Reporters Without Borders‘ Reza Moeini about the current plight of political prisoners in Iran.

Later in the program, we’ll pay tribute to legendary Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who passed away a year ago on August 9^th 2008.

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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.

Son of Babylon

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. The film has been selected as Iraq’s official entry for the foreign language Oscar at the 2011 Academy Awards. Al-Daradji also speaks with us about the unsteady state of the film industry in Iraq.

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This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, 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. Ali talks about the political landscape in Pakistan in the midst of a flood that’s left thousands dead and over one and half million people homeless.

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. Al-Daradji speaks with us about the state of the film industry in Iraq. And how he’s received numerous death threats – and has even been kidnapped – because of the movies he’s produced.

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Author Joy Totah Hilden

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.”

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This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we bring back two of our favorite previously aired segments: 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.

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

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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