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Looking at Islamophobia on 10th Anniversary of 911

As the 10th anniversary of the 911 attacks approaches, a report points out a handful of charitable groups involved in $42.6 million dollar campaign to fund Islamophobia. We talk to journalist and author Max Blumenthal who has investigated these organizations relationships with right wing Zionists group in the U.S. Later in the program we bring present the second part of our interview with a famed Algerian cartoonist.

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Algeria: Libya’s Neighbor the West

With the arrival of Gaddafi’s family in Algeria, we turn our attention to Libya’s neighbor to the west, Algeria. We speak with Azzedine Layachi the professor of government and politics at St. John University in New York. We also speak with Algeria’s leading cartoonist, about his colleague Ali Farzad, who was brutally beaten by government thugs on the streets of Damascus.

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The youngest detainee in Guantanamo Bay; Arab Film Festival

This week, we have a conversation with Lisa Hajjar, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has been writing about Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay. Later in the program, we speak with Algerian film maker Lyes Salem, who wrote, directed and starred in the award-winning movie “Masquerades,” which was chosen for the opening night of this year’s Arab film festival.

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More on Gaza; Reparations for African Victims of Colonization & Slavery.

Aired January 21, 2009 In this program we listen to the second part of a series on reparations for African victims of colonization and slavery. The week prior, we discussed the movement for reparations for slavery in the United States, and in tonight’s segment we look towards the other side of the Atlantic Ocean at [...]