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Remembering Edward Said; NIGHT OVER ERZINGA

By vomena on October 5th, 2011

On Sept 26th 2003, Palestinian Intellectual Edward Said passed away after a long battle with leukemia. We remember Professor Said by featuring an interview he did about his seminal work, Orientalism.

Later in the program, we speak with Golden Thread Productions’ Founding Artistic Director Torange Yeghiazarian and International artist Hafiz Karmali about the play, NIGHT OVER ERZINGA.

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Violence in Yemen; Graphic Novel of Iran’s Green Revolution

By vomena on September 14th, 2011

This week’s Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we explore the escalation in violence in Yemen’s Capital Sanaa persists as military forces loyal to president Ali Abdullah Saleh have continued their assaults on protestors for the past four days. We’ll speak with Atiaf al Wazir, a Yemeni-American blogger and activist based in the nation’s capital Sana.

We’ll also speak with University of Richmond political scientist Sheila Carapico about how external powers are attempting to shape Yemen’s future.

Later in the program, we’ll feature a new graphic novel about an Iranian family’s search for their 19-year-old son after he disappears during a protest in the aftermath of the rigged 2009 presidential election in Iran. We’ll speak with Amir, who’s the author of the graphic novel Zahra’s Paradise.

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Looking at Islamophobia on 10th Anniversary of 911

By vomena on September 11th, 2011

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

By vomena on September 11th, 2011

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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Syria’s Prospects; Egyptian Film, ‘Microphone’

By vomena on August 17th, 2011

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa we look at the political situation in Syria as it intensifies as the revolt against Assad’s government spreads to different parts of the country. We speak with Syrian-born political scientist, Professor Bassam Haddad who has just returned from a trip to the region, about the current developments in Syria and what they might mean for the country’s future. Later on in the program, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa contributor Professor Samera Esmeir will be speaking with Egyptian actor and producer Khaled Abol Naga about the award winning feature film Microphone which explores the underground music scene in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Turkey’s Role in MENA Region; Interview with Firoozeh Kashani

By vomena on July 27th, 2011

This week on Voices of The Middle East and North Africa we will be looking at Turkey’s expanding role in the Middle East and North Africa. We will be speaking with Dr. Karem Oktem, a research fellow at the European Studies Center of Saint Anthony’s College about Turkey’s foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Later on in the program, VOMENA producer Shuka Kalantari will speak with Iranian-American author, Firoozeh Kashani of Penn State University about her debut novel ‘Martyrdom Street.’

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Egypts Revolutionary Spirit Endures; Iranian Political Prisoner Memoir

By vomena on July 20th, 2011

The revolutionary spirit endures in Egypt as thousand of protesters stay camped out at Tahrir square for the second week in a row. In response to nationwide protests and the slow pace of reform Egypt’s Prime Minister, Essam Sharaf has fired several of his top ministers.

We continue our conversation with leading Egyptian activist and journalist Hossam El Hamalawy about the prospects for the revolution to flourish and bring about real change.

And in the summer of 1988, over 5000 political prisoners in Iran were executed and dumped into shallow graves in Khavaran cemetery on the outskirts of the capital, Tehran in what was a pre planned and systematic campaign. We will be speaking with Professor Shahla Talebi of Arizona State University and a former political prisoner about her memoir, ‘Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran.’

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Turkey’s Role in the MENA region; Discussion of Firoozeh Kahani’s “Martydrom Street”

By vomena on July 5th, 2011

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we take an in-depth look at Turkey’s expanding role in the Middle East and North Africa. We will be speaking with Dr. Karem Oktem; a research fellow at the European Studies Center of Saint Anthony’s College; about Turkey’s assertive foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Later on in the program VOMENA producer Shuka Kalantari will speak with Iranian American author Firoozeh Kashani of Penn State University about her debut novel “Martydom Street.”

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Libya & Iran Updates; Cheb i Sabbah Fundraiser

By vomena on June 29th, 2011

This week on Voices of The Middle East and North Africa, we speak with Libyan Professor Ahmida from the University of New England to update us on the current situation in Libya. We will also speak with KPFA’s music programmer Kutay Kugay about the July 8th fundraiser for Bay Area based musical pioneer Cheb i Sabbah who has been diagnosed with cancer. We also discuss the state of political prisoners in Iran and talk with Executive Director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran Hadi Ghaemi.

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Revisiting Tunisian Uprising; Comedy Show ‘All Atheists are Muslim’

By vomena on June 22nd, 2011

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa we revisit Tunisia and look at the Tunisian revolution and we speak with Tunisian born geography Professor Habib Ayeb at the American University in Cairo. Later in the show Iranian-American comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh talks to us about her one woman show, ‘All Atheists are [...]

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