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 12th, the 30th 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.
For more of Khalil Bendib’s cartoons, visit The Pen is Funnier than the Sword.
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 legitamcy 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.
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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 9th 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.
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.
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.”
For more of Khalil Bendib’s cartoons, visit The Pen is Funnier than the Sword.
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.”
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.
For more of Khalil Bendib’s cartoons, visit The Pen is Funnier than the Sword.
