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Turkey’s Role in the MENA region; Discussion of Firoozeh Kahani’s “Martydrom Street”

By on July 5th, 2011

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we take an in-depth look at Turkey’s expanding role in the Middle East and North Africa. We will be speaking with Dr. Karem Oktem; a research fellow at the European Studies Center of Saint Anthony’s College; about Turkey’s assertive foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Later on in the program VOMENA producer Shuka Kalantari will speak with Iranian American author Firoozeh Kashani of Penn State University about her debut novel “Martydom Street.”

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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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Revisiting Tunisian Uprising; Comedy Show ‘All Atheists are Muslim’

By on June 22nd, 2011

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa we revisit Tunisia and look at the Tunisian revolution and we speak with Tunisian born geography Professor Habib Ayeb at the American University in Cairo. Later in the show Iranian-American comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh talks to us about her one woman show, ‘All Atheists are [...]

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The Referendum in Southern Sudan

By on February 3rd, 2011

This week we have a conversation about the reasons behind the referendum in Southern Sudan. We also get an update about the spreading protests in Tunisia.

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Tunisia Protest Update; Iranian Author Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

By on February 3rd, 2011

eek we look at the ongoing protests in Tunisia. Also we speak with Iranian-American author Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet of Penn State University about her debut novel, “Martyrdom Street.”

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Elections in Egypt; HIV/AIDS in the Middle East & North Africa

By on December 8th, 2010

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

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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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This Week on VOMENA: LGTB in Lebanon & Climate Change in N. Africa

By on December 11th, 2009

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North we go to Copenhagen to speak with experts about the impact of global warming in North Africa and what . We also speak with the general coordinator of a LGTB movement in Lebanon about the book, Bareed Mista3jil: True Stories, a collection of 41 stories from “lesbians, bisexuals, queer and questioning women, and trans-gender persons from all over Lebanon.”

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This Week on VOMENA

By on October 1st, 2009

Khalil Bendib speaks with Tel Aviv University historian Dr. Shlomo Sand about his brand-new book,
“The Invention of the Jewish People,” which has become a best seller both in Israel and in France: Did
the world’s Jewry truly originate in Palestine, and if not, why does that myth persist to this day?
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa also presents “In Honor of a Hero,” Bay Area-based Algerian
Berber singer/songwriter Moh Alileche’s newest CD, which came out two months ago.

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