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.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – March 10, 2010 at 7:00pm Click to listen (or download)
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we’ll be speaking with Hossam El Hamalawy, an Egyptian journalist and activist, about the nearly completed underground wall between Gaza and Egypt. Later in the program, Shuka Kalantari speaks with Bay Area based technologist Austin Heap about he created Haystack, a software program designed to provide unfiltered internet access to the people of Iran that specifically targets the Iranian government’s internet filtering systems.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we bring you an interview with Haideh Moghissi from York University in Canada, about women’s struggle for equality in Iran. Later in the program we have a conversation with Rachel Leah Jones, directory of the documentary film, Ashkenaz, about the history of Ashkenazi Jews in Israel.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we’ll have a conversation with Ali Abu Nima, co-Founder of Electronic Intifada and activist and Middle East expert Jeff Blankfort, in which they each comment on an interview we first taped and aired last month with Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT on the subject of the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign. We also speak with Bay Area-based artist Taraneh Hemami about an exhibit she has curated, titled ‘One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran.’
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This week, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa brings you an update about the protests in Iran, and on the governments continued wave of repression from Dr. Mansour Farhang, professor of politics at Benigton College. We also bring you the second part of a speech by noted writer, journalist, and filmmaker Tariq Ali. His lecture was titled “Obama’s War in Afghanistan and Pakistan”. Click here to listen to VOMENA’s update on Iran’s protest, and a speech by filmaker Tariq Ali.
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This week, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa brings you the first part of a speech by noted writer, journalist, and filmmaker Tariq Ali delivered at the Twelfth Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture at Hampshire College on November 17.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we continue our talks on the impact global warming in the Middle East and North Africa.
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This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we speak with Professor Noam Chomsky about his views on the Palestinian question and ask him questions which he is rarely asked.