Special KPFA Broadcast: Egyptian Revolution Update: Tune in Friday morning 8 a.m.- 10 a.m. on KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno or stream on KPFA.org
This week we give you a first-hand account of the Egyptian Revolution, in Tahrir Square. Tahrir, meaning peace.
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This week we continue our coverage about the revolution in Tunisa. We also speak with a young Egyptian rapper.
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This week, we’ll get an update on the last Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Egypt for our regular contributor in Cairo, activist and journalist, Hossam El Hamalawy. Later in the program, on the occasion of World AIDS Day, we’ll bring you an in depth discussion about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Middle East and north Africa region with professors Kaveh Khosnood of Yale University and Laith Abu Raddad of Cornell University in Qatar
This week, we’ll have a conversation with Egyptian journalist and blogger Hossam El Hamalwy about this month’s upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in Egypt. Later in the program, we’ll bring you the second part of a conversation with ethnomusicologist Dr Tim Abdellah Fuson on the genealogy of Gnawa music OF Northwestern Africa.
This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we speak with Egyptian journalist and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy about the recent labor movement in Egypt. Later we’ll talk about the Friday Night Palestinian Film Series in Berkeley.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we’ll be speaking with Hossam El Hamalawy, an Egyptian journalist and activist, about the nearly completed underground wall between Gaza and Egypt. Later in the program, Shuka Kalantari speaks with Bay Area based technologist Austin Heap about he created Haystack, a software program designed to provide unfiltered internet access to the people of Iran that specifically targets the Iranian government’s internet filtering systems.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we continue our talks on the impact global warming in the Middle East and North Africa.
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