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 [...]
Bassam Hajjar From : Banipal, the magazine of modern Arab literature in English . 1955 – 17 February 2009 With great sadness we report that Bassam Hajja died of cancer on 17 February. Born in Sûr (Tyre), Lebanon, he became a philosopher and a poet – with a Diploma of Advanced Study in Philosophy from the [...]
The Divine Sponge The Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus was a rare bird: a formal innovator immersed in tradition, a politically engaged artist who resisted political classification. Sinan Antoon looks back on his life and work. “What words can do / these days / Is almost nothing” wrote the Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus in The [...]
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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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, [...]
February 4, 2009 In this program, History Professor Beshara Doumani will be in conversation with Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi about his new book entitled Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Hegemony in the Middle East. In his new work, Professor Khalidi dissects the crucial dynamics of power in the Cold War between the [...]
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