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This Week on VOMENA: Iran’s Worsening Situation

By on July 13th, 2009

This week on VOMENA continue our conversation about the worsening situation in Iran. Thousands of people have been jailed in Iran, at least 40 of which are journalists. Later on in the program, we discuss the issue of post-911 climate of fear that has been imposed by the government. Finally we speak to the director Rachel Jones about her new film Ashkenaz, which takes a look at the thorny of issue of racism in Israel.

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This Week on VOMENA

By on July 2nd, 2009

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we have continued coverage of the ongoing protests in Iran regarding the recent forced television co. Plus an interview with co-owner of Berkeley Daily Planet, Becky O’Mally, talks about a campaign from right-wing Zionists who are trying to shut down the paper. Plus an interview with Rachel Lea Jones, director of the documentary film “Ashkenaz,” looking at the issue of racism among Jewish in Israel.

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The Wounds of Gaza: A Report by Lancet

By on April 30th, 2009

Two Surgeons from the UK, Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah and Dr Swee Ang, managed to get into Gaza during the Israeli invasion. Here they describe their experiences, share their views, and conclude that the people of Gaza are extremely vulnerable and defenseless in the event of another attack. The Lancet Global Health Network removed the report [...]

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This Week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa

By on March 5th, 2009

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 [...]

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Art/Literature, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Music, North Africa, Palestine, Uncategorized No comments yet

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

By on February 26th, 2009

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Women in Iraq; Critique of Israeli Government by Holocaust Survivors

By on February 20th, 2009

February 18, 2008 Women in Iraq; Critique of Israeli Government by Holocaust Survivors Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – February 18, 2009 at 7:00pm Click to listen (or download)

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Editorial on Bernard Madoff’s “Victims”

By on February 20th, 2009

Daniel McGowan — Professor Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and founder of Deir Yassin Remembered — has written an unusual and interesting essay in which he suggests that many of Madoff’s victims were, themselves, victimizers. He is pleased that their ability to continue to harm people may be diminished: The Madoff Victims: They Richly [...]

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“Erase My Granfather’s Name at Yad Vashem”

By on February 20th, 2009

Jean-Moïse Braitberg Discusses Israel in Le Monde Mr. President of the State of Israel, I am writing to you to intervene with the proper authorities to withdraw from the Yad Vashem Memorial dedicated to the memory of Jewish victims of Nazism, the name of my grandfather, Moshe Brajtberg, who was gassed at Treblinka in 1943, [...]

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

By on February 11th, 2009

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 [...]

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