Voices of the Middle East & North Africa

tonight’s program special fund drive

vomena — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:21:02 +0000

Tonight, on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, We will feature the documentary Goal Dreams, by Maya Sanbar and Jeffrey Saunders about the Palestinian national soccer team.

Trailer Goal Game :

Also, sports under occupation, a lecture by Dave Zirin will be aired.

additionnal ressources

what if Kobe Bryant were a imprisonned Palestinian soccer player? The nation, by Dave Zirin.

Tonight’s program

vomena — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:45:06 +0000

On this week’s program, we’ll be speaking with three Leading analysts of Egypt, Professor Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Professor Samer Shahate of George Town University about their contribution to the brand new book, the Journey to Tahrir : Revolution, protest and Social Change in Egypt, 1999-2011

We will be also hearing track from the CD Kelmti Horra ( My Word Is Free) by Tunisia’s rising singing star, Emel Mathlouthi ( take a look on our previous post )

Tunisian Emel Matholouthi performing friday in Berkeley

vomena — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:34:24 +0000

This Friday, May 11 Tunisian singer/songwriter Emel Mathlouthi will be performing at the Berkeley City College Auditorium.

Tunisian 30 years old woman got a very good hit in singing during the unisian uprising. Devoted to the cause of the people, she brought a huge emotion to the activists, and gained a respect as an artist

Emel Mathlouthi in concert at Berkeley (Facebook)

Free event

when : 7:30pm

Where : Berkeley city college Auditorium

Last week’s Radio show

vomena — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:05:18 +0000

The Voices of the Middle East and North Africa show aired on Wednesday, April 25th 2012. Produced by Malihe Razazan.

Guests
Hossam El-Hamalawy – Egyptian journalist
Caveh zahedi – movie director “The sheik and I”

Mohsen Namjoo in concert at UC berkeley this saturday

vomena — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:54:32 +0000

Iranian musician singer and song writer Mohsen Namjoo and Ensemble will be performing at the Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley (location details here) on Saturday April 28th at 7:30pm.

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Fared Shafinury in concert tonight and friday

vomena — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:06:59 +0000

Iranian American award winning musician Fared Shafinury will be on stage tonight at 8pm at Yoshi’s in Oakland and on Friday at 8pm at Red Poppy Arthouse.

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Interview with Hamid Naficy

vomena — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:55:14 +0000

Hamid Naficy, a leading authority on Iranian cinema is Professor of Radio-Television-Film at Northwestern University. He is the author of An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking, The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles, and (in Persian) Film-e Mostanad, a two-volume history of nonfiction cinema around the world. Naficy helped to launch ongoing annual Iranian film festivals in Los Angeles and Houston.

He spoke with Dr Hossain Khosrojah about his recent 4 volume publication titled “ A Social History of Iranian Cinema”

A Social History of Iranian Cinema
Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897–1941
Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978
Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984
Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010

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Marcel Khalife, worldwide composer and musician

vomena — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:55:00 +0000

Lebanese Master Marcel Khalife will perform the prophetic poems of the Arab World’s most renowned and beloved poet Mahmoud Darwish, and pays tribute to the Arab uprising on Sunday April 22nd at 7pm at the zellerbach Hall at University of California, Berkeley.

Produced by Malihe Razazan from KPFA studios.

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UC Berkeley hosts the iranian film festival in April

vomena — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:24:50 +0000

The Iranian film festival will take place in UC Berkeley every weekends of April. This cultural event, organized by UC Berkeley’s Near Eastern Studies Department, will be entirely free.

Talks, lectures and screenings by reknowned filmmakers and professors will be programmed. Parviz Sayyad, Hamid Naficy, Bahram Beizai and Sahraa Karimi are part of the star guests to discover.

More about the program on this page.

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Jaffar Panahi’s “this is not a film” in San Francisco

vomena — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:20:20 +0000

The SF film society will screen “This is not a film” from the prominent director Jafar Panahi. This coming friday (April 6th) to the 12th, you can watch the movie at the following adress 1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)>

For more than three decades, Iranian Filmmakers have faced severe restrictions imposed by the state in post revolutionary Iran. More recently, and since the crackdown that followed the fraudulent 2009 presidential elections, some of Iran’s most celebrated filmmakers have either left the country or have experienced arrests and detentions.

Internationally renowned Jafar Panahi is one of those filmmakers. He is currently under house arrest, and his plight has received extensive International attention. After a year long court battle, last October, Mr. Panhai was sentenced to a 20-year ban on directing , script writing, giving press interviews and leaving the country.

Not being able to work as a filmmaker, with help from documentarian Mojataba Miraftab, he made a documentary about himself , he called it !“This Is Not a Film” and dedicated it to all Iranian filmmakers. This is not a film was shot inside Jafar Panahi’s flat in Tehran, on digital video (and, at one point, an iPhone) and smuggled to France on a USB thumb drive that was hidden inside a cake.

I spoke with Dr Hossein Khosraojah, a visiting scholar California College of the Arts about Jafar Panahis’ latest work which will open in San Francisco this Friday and the larger question of where Iranian cinema is today!

Informations source from the this is not a film official website.

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