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This Week: Women’s Struggles in Iran

By 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 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 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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Facebook Police in Iran: Update

By on July 14th, 2009

I got this message from an annonymous poster in Iran: “Last night Iran NEWS announced that every one who uses Facebook for political reasons against Iran is guilty and sent to prison fron 3-6 month in Iran. This for the people coming to Iran Or live in Iran.” On NPR: Iran’s Terrifying Facebook Police

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This Week on VOMENA

By on June 30th, 2009

This week on Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, we continue our coverage of the ongoing protests of the election in Iran by looking at the youth movement and the role it has played in the recent protest.

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A girl shot by a basij member in Kargar Ave, Tehran Iran

By on June 20th, 2009

Iran Election June 20, 2009: A girl shot by a basij member in Kargar Ave, Tehran Iran (Please be warned – THIS IS GRAPHIC, and devastating.)

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