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This Week: Women’s Struggles in Iran

By vomena on February 7th, 2010

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: Israel Boycott; Tehran Art Exhibit in San Francisco

By vomena on January 13th, 2010

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: Iran Political Crisis; Berber New Year

By vomena on January 8th, 2010

This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Shahram Aghamir will speak with Ali Rezaei a social researcher at the University of Calgary in Canada about the political crisis within the Iranian regime.
Later in the program, leading Bay Area based Algerian Berber musician and song writer Moh Alileche will talk to us about the Berber New year of 2960.

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Iran’s Mousavi fired as head of Arts Institution

By vomena on December 22nd, 2009

From BBC News: The Council for Cultural Revolution, a high-ranking body chaired by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dismissed Mousavi on Tuesday night, state media said.

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VOMENA Special Part 2: Iran Election Coverage

By vomena on June 30th, 2009

Voices of the Middle East & North Africa speaks with Eric Hooglund, professor of politics at Bates College and editor of the scholarly journal, Middle East Critique. We also hear from Iman, a young activist who recently escaped from Iran will share his story with us. Finally we will hear the reaction of two Tehran residents about the historic demonstration that took place two weeks ago.

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