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Libya & Iran Updates; Cheb i Sabbah Fundraiser

By 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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Egypt Update; Aswat Bay Area Music Ensemble

By on June 1st, 2011

This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we get an update on the unfolding situation in Egypt. On May 23rd Egyptian bloggers posted critiques and opinions about the transitional government and the grassroots movement for democracy.

Later in the program we hear from Aswat, the Bay Area music ensemble which performed live for us in studio last night.

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Iranian activist Reza Shahabi in Evin Prison; Iranian band ‘Abjeez’

By on December 16th, 2010

This week on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, we speak to the wife of jailed labor union activist Reza Shahabi who began a dry hunger strike on December 4th in Evin Prison in Tehran. We also talk to the director of the international campaign for human rights in Iran about the plight of jailed Iranian labor unionists. Also, Shuka Kalantari speaks with Sweden-based Iranian musicians Melody and Safoura Safavi of the band Abjeez.

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Elections in Egypt; Gnawa North African Music

By on November 16th, 2010

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.

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Lebanese Oil Spill; Gnawa music in North Africa

By on November 16th, 2010

We talk to him about the worst oil spill catastrophe ever to befall the Eastern Mediterranean, in July of 2006, which resulted from targeted Israeli air strikes on the giant Lebanese Fuel tanks of Jiyyeh. Later in the program, we bring you the first part of a two-part conversation with ethnomusicologist Dr Tim Abdellah Fuson about the genealogy of Gnawa music in Northwestern Africa.

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Iranian Presidents Visit to Lebanon; Afro-Persian Music: Shanbehzadeh Ensemble

By on October 21st, 2010

This week, we’ll have a conversation about the significance of Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon for both countries and for the region in general. Later in the program, will have a conversation with Saeed Shanbehzadeh leader of the Shanbehzadeh Ensemble about the traditional music and dance of Bushehr, a city located in the South Western part of Iran in the Persian Gulf.

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This Week: Palestinian Author; Iranian Prisoners: Now & Then

By on September 10th, 2010

week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we’ll have a conversation with a Palestinian author about the reason for Israel’s loss of legitamcy in world opinion. Also we pay tribute to thousands of political prisoners secretly executed in Iran in 1998, and the ongoing international campaign to help those currently detained.

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Attack on Free Gaza flotilla; Iranian-American hiphop

By on August 1st, 2010

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: Author Eyal Weizman on Israeli Occupation of Palestine

By on May 14th, 2010

In this week’s program, Khalil Bendib will be in conversation with Eyal Weizman, Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the author of Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, a groundbreaking exposé of Israel’s terrifying re-conceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond. To contact us, please call 510-848-6767 ext. 632, or send us e-mail to info@vomena.org.

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This Week: Anti-Worker Laws in Iran

By on May 6th, 2010

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa we speak with Sohrab Behdad professor of economics at Denison University about the state of labor in Iran and current anti-worker laws in that country.

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