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Looking at Islamophobia on 10th Anniversary of 911

As the 10th anniversary of the 911 attacks approaches, a report points out a handful of charitable groups involved in $42.6 million dollar campaign to fund Islamophobia. We talk to journalist and author Max Blumenthal who has investigated these organizations relationships with right wing Zionists group in the U.S. Later in the program we bring present the second part of our interview with a famed Algerian cartoonist.

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Algeria: Libya’s Neighbor the West

With the arrival of Gaddafi’s family in Algeria, we turn our attention to Libya’s neighbor to the west, Algeria. We speak with Azzedine Layachi the professor of government and politics at St. John University in New York. We also speak with Algeria’s leading cartoonist, about his colleague Ali Farzad, who was brutally beaten by government thugs on the streets of Damascus.

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This Week: Iran Political Crisis; Berber New Year

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Shahram Aghamir will speak with Ali Rezaei a social researcher at the University of Calgary in Canada about the political crisis within the Iranian regime.
Later in the program, leading Bay Area based Algerian Berber musician and song writer Moh Alileche will talk to us about the Berber New year of 2960.

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Khalil Bendib’s Weekly Cartoon

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This Week on VOMENA

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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This Week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa

March, 4, 2009   A conversation with Patrick Craven of COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) about  the latest action taken by a South African union that refused to offload an Israeli ship last month to protest Israel’s bloody massacres in Gaza and Michael Eisencher of USLAW in Alameda  about nascent efforts from within [...]

Khalil Bendib’s weekly Cartoon

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More on Gaza; Reparations for African Victims of Colonization & Slavery.

Aired January 21, 2009 In this program we listen to the second part of a series on reparations for African victims of colonization and slavery. The week prior, we discussed the movement for reparations for slavery in the United States, and in tonight’s segment we look towards the other side of the Atlantic Ocean at [...]