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.
his week, 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. 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.
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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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, A Modern History of Jerusalem; Searching for Iraq’s Artistic Life.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Professor Sinan Antoon on elections in Iraq and Omid Arabian on Hurt Locker. Broadcasts 94.1. FM in San Francisco at 7PM PST.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2009 Voices of the Middle East and North Africa has a conversation with Professor. Pete Moore of Case Western University about the political economy of Iraq. Tunisian filmmakers Kalthoum Bornaz speaks about her film, “The Other Half of the Sky.” Click here to subscribe to our podcast. Audio to come
March 18th, 2008 In this week’s program, we mark the 6th anniversary of the full-scale invasion and occupation of Iraq. Shahram Aghamir speaks to independent journalist Dahr Jamail and Nabil Al-Takriti, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mary Washington. Later in the program, Sanaz Meshkinpour and Shuka Kalantari take us through the tradition of [...]
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